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Howells as Anti-Novelist
by John Updike
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
The William Dean Howells Memorial Committee, 1987. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 43 pages. "A publication of the William Dean Howells Curatorship Fund established at Harvard University in 1978 by John N. M. Howells '34." One of "One hundred and fifty copies printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by Werner Mueller after designs by Greer Allen." Author's note explains that this small edition "basically reproduces the original version" of the talk he gave in Emerson Lecture Hall, at Harvard, May 1, 1987 as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Howells' birth; a "somewhat amplified and altered" version subsequently appeared in The New Yorker. 5" x 8-1/4" in white wraps, encased in gray French-fold DJ with red and black lettering on the front. The DJ is very slightly sunned along the spine and its front flap has a vertical crease along the edge (7/16" at top, 1/4" at bottom). Three tiny spots of soil to ffep, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in compliments card from the Houghton Library. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, who in 1987 was in the Harvard Department of English and, as a member of the WDH Memorial Committee, introduced Updike on the occasion of this lecture. (The nearly 50-year correspondence between Berthoff and Updike is held by Houghton in its Updike Collection.)
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-510
- Title
- Howells as Anti-Novelist
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The William Dean Howells Memorial Committee
- Date Published
- 1987
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JOHN UPDIKE, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, LECTURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary criticism; John Updike;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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