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Still Looking: Essays on American Art
by John Updike
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400044189
- ISBN 13
- 9781400044184
- Seller
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 222 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's 223 color art reproductions. The novelist's second collection of essays on art, 18 pieces selected by him chiefly from his writings as art critic for the New York Review of BOoks, keyed to exhibitions he visited, including single-artist shows of Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and others, up to Andy Warhol. Imperial 8vo (8-1/4" x 10-1/4"), black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping on boards, printed on semi-gloss stock, very slight wear to corners/crown/heel. Pages unmarked. Unclipped DJ shows wear and rubbing along edges. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in Harvard's Houghton Library; laid in is a "With the compliments of the author card" from Knopf. Also laid in is an appreciation of this book, clipped from Harvard Magazine of April 2006.
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 and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1159
- Title
- Still Looking: Essays on American Art
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400044189
- ISBN 13
- 9781400044184
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- EXHIBITIONS, NATURE, AMERICAN CULTURE, WINSLOW HOMER, THOMAS EAKINS, COPLEY, HOPPER, ANDY WARHOL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays; John Updike; Art;
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