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Self-Consciousness
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1989. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome dark blue leather First Edition signed by John Updike. This book is the memoir of this well-known American author. In fine unread condition with moire silk endpapers, gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. The gold gilt edges are perfect and the ribbon looks as it has never been moved. Author of "Rabbit Run," "Rabbit at Rest," "Rabbit Redux.
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
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1666
- Title
- Self-Consciousness
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1989
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
Biblio member since 2006
SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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