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Picked Up Pieces
by Updike, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394498496
- ISBN 13
- 9780394498492
- Seller
-
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
€74.57€59.65
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975. Stated first edition; signed by author at the Title page; dustjacket wrapped in transparent plastic book cover, deckled fore-edge, top edge publishers stained; dustjacket faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled/sunned, corners/edges/spine ends very lightly rubbed/bumped, several small chips/tears at the corners/edges/spine ends; cover very faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled, corners/edges/spine ends very lightly soiled, spine ends very lightly rubbed/bumped; edges faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled, very lightly sunned, bottom corner lightly soiled, top edge lightly damped stained/soiled; interior faintly age-toned throughout, lightly pencil erasures along the top edge of the ffep, signed by author at the Title page, pastedowns/endpapers ever-so-slightly soiled; binding tight; dustjacket, cover, edges and interior intact and clean, except where noted; due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 613913
- Title
- Picked Up Pieces
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394498496
- ISBN 13
- 9780394498492
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- Erasures
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- FFEP
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Title Page
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