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BECH IS BACK
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394528069
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528069
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1982. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A second collection of short stories featuring Updike's Henry Bech, a peripatetic and unproductive writer and academic. Collectable.
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
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000782
- Title
- BECH IS BACK
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, First Trade Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0394528069
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528069
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN LITERATURE, SHORT STORIES, MODERN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories; Fine Literature;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.