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AMERICANA AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO ALISON LURIE
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Updike's penultimate collection of poems. Lurie (1926-2020), a friend and contemporary of Updike's, won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs (1984) two years after Updike won it for Rabbit Is Rich. In recent years she wrote a favorable review of The Widows of Eastwick ("Widcraft," 2009) in The New York Review, and sat on the committee for the inaugural John Updike Award (2011), presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A brief but meaningful inscription between two Pulitzer Prize-winners. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; xii,95,[3]pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie: "For Alison Lurie / Warm regards / John Updike / 4/15/01." Base of spine gently nudged, a few barely discernable foxed spots to upper board edges, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $23.00), with a hint of sunning to spine panel; very Near Fine.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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 . He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5744
- Title
- AMERICANA AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO ALISON LURIE
- Author
- Updike, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Gilt
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- Foxed
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