Search Results: John Updike from Berthoff Books

Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 316 pages. Twenty-two stories, in Updike's eleventh collection. 8vo, Navy blue boards with usual Knopf gilt lettering, burgundy topstain, almost no visible wear, save sunning to exposed edges of boards. In unclipped DJ with slight wear and small pale tan stains to front panel and flap at top. Pages bright and unmarked. Two black marker dots to bottom edge as if remaindered, but this copy is also inscribed by the author on the ffep, "Dear Warner - You once said you liked these tales of reluctant but ineluctable aging, and here they are with admiration and affection, John." From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in the Updike Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard U.

Knopf, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 95 pages. Sixty-two poems from after Updike's Collected Poems 1953-1993 came out. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, no visible wear save light sunning to bottom and top edges of boards, in clean and crisp unclipped DJ. Pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 327 pages. Collection of book reviews, essays, reminiscences and parodies, first published in 1955-65. Includes "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu", on Ted Williams. 8vo, yellow cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge tinted brown, unusually heavy foxing to boards, soil to their exposed edges, only faint foxing to text-block edges, minimal shelf wear, in unclipped, age-toned DJ with 1" tear in front panel at top, raggedy along crown, normal shelf wear to bottom, light foxing to interior. "Good" rating is a compromise between the foxed boards and the mostly clean pages - only one margin bracket in pencil observed, and a tiny pencil note on rfep.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 241 pages. 8vo, red cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering, corners sharp, top edge decoratively tinted brown, faint foxing to fore-edge, binding tight, in crisp, unclipped DJ with just the hint of a curl to the top of the flaps and an almost-crease at bottom of front flap. Pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 303 pages, with index of Greek mythological references. "First and second printings before publication." The Centaur received the National Book Award for Fiction in 1964. 8vo, gray boards sunned tan and lightly soiled, black cloth backstrip with gilt and silver gilt lettering, top edge decoratively tinted red, other edges and page margins age-toned, in unclipped ($4.00) DJ with considerable wear to edges and two tears in back flap fold (1" at bottom, 2" in middle). Names of former owners Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep with date March 1963, his marginalia on front flap of DJ and approximately 13 pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 458 pages. First edition, second printing. 8vo, blue cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, boards sunned at their extremities and with small spots of soil, blue tint to top edge faded and foxed, in unclipped DJ that's raggedy across the top (chips and tears) and has small chips at the heel. Small pencil marks in the margins of a smattering of pages, and one or two notes.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 703 pages, with index, b&w line drawings or other illustrations on 15 pages. Updike's sixth collection of non-fiction. 8vo, red cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, with no visible wear except pale blue topstain a wee bit sunned. Unclipped DJ is slightly rumpled around crown and has a barely visible scratch on front panel. Pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed on title page, "for Warner and Ann great considerers both / Cheers, John"; from the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in the Updike Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard U.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 97 pages. John Updike's last book. 8vo, beige cloth with gilt lettering, front board ever so slightly bowed, very faint foxing to top edge, no other visible wear, in unclipped DJ a bit rumpled along bottom of front panel.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 110 pages. Twenty-two sonnets, seven odes, other poems and light verse. 8vo, ivory cloth with gilt lettering, corners sharp, tiny spots of soil on front board, faint foxing to edges, in unclipped DJ with light soil near top, fold in bottom of front flap. Pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 501 pages, with index, b&w illustrations (cuts) throughout. Updike's last collection of non-fiction writing, published posthumously. Edited by Christopher Carduff. 8vo, black cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge stained red with just a hint of soil and a tiny nick, in unclipped DJ with no visible wear. Pages bright and unmarked. Berthoff Books inventory #WBB-502 is the trade paperback version of this edition, in very good condition.

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. 501 pages, with index, b&w illustrations (cuts) throughout. Updike's last collection of non-fiction writing, published posthumously. Edited by Christopher Carduff. Minimal shelf wear, tiny spot and scratch to front wrap, pale coffee stain at bottom, ToC pages a little wavy at bottom from damp. Binding solid and supple, pages unmarked. Berthoff Books inventory #WBB-503 is a near-fine copy of the hardcover version of this first edition, in a fine DJ.

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… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 919 pages, with index. Second printing before publication. 8vo, light blue cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, boards sunned at top and bottom, top edge decoratively tinted red, page-turning soil to bottom edge, front pastedown pasted a little bit over the edge of the board and tanned from previously laid-in newspaper clipping, faint foxing to rough-cut fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with some creases and folds in flaps, wear at top, light soil to back panel. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. 222 pages, with index, bibliography, chronology, notes on editors and contributors. Twentieth Century Views series. Introduction by David Thorburn. Trade paperback, scratch to front wrap and light soil to back, edges shelf-worn and with faint foxing. Pages bright, underscoring and small marginal marks on approximately 15 pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 212 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's many illustrations - color and b&w, plates and cuts - throughout. The novelist's essays are keyed to exhibitions he visited, including a Degas retrospective, a much-hyped Renoir show, Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" paintings, others of American painters. Imperial 8vo (8-1/4" x 10-1/4"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping on boards, printed on semi-gloss stock, a bit sunned along top edges, touch of dust soil and barely visible incipient foxing to top edge, a few small spots of foxing to end papers, light smudge to fore-edge. Pages unmarked. Unclipped DJ has very scant visible wear.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 359 pages. First Trade Edition. Included novella "Rabbit Remembered" is a sequel to the Rabbit tetralogy of novels. Twelve short stories. 8vo, golden cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, pale orange topstain, corners sharp, faint foxing to fore-edge and light smudge on ffep, in unclipped DJ with minor shelf wear at heel. Pages bright and unmarked. Not ex-library.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 282 pages. Stories dating from 1960-1972. 8vo, gray-green cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge tinted purple, very slightly cocked and back board very slightly bowed, faint foxing to fore-edge, page-turning soil to bottom corner, in unclipped DJ with minimal shelf wear. Pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 260 pages. Twenty stories, first published 1962-1966. 8vo, slate blue boards, raspberry cloth backstrip with rubbed gilt and silver gilt lettering, corners sharp, foxing to to top edge, a few spots on fore-edge, front matter pages and a few other pages; in unclipped DJ with sunned spine, chips and tears at crown, diagonal scratch across bottom part of front panel. Small pencil marks next to six of the story titles in the ToC, pencil underscoring or marginalia observed on three other pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 292 pages. Third printing. Short stories from late in Updike's life, all but one written in the 21st century. 8vo, deep turquoise cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering, corners sharp, tiny spots of paint along bottom of boards, first 100 pages and front panel of DJ slightly wavy at top from damp; minimal shelf wear to unclipped DJ, white streak on front panel. Pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 919 pages, with index. Updike's fourth collection of non-fiction prose. 8vo, green cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top corner of rear board a little frayed, in unclipped DJ with light wear along top, bookstore sticker on back panel. Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book, may require extra postage.