Bech At Bay: A Quasi-Novel, (Signed)
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Fine
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, (1998), 1998. Hardcover. Very Fine. 8vo. 241 pages. Signed by the author on the limitation page and numbered. Limited to 1100 copies. Bound in full genuine leather with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. All edges are gilt. Includes silk moire end papers and a satin ribbon page marker. Also includes a Certificate of Authenticity from the Easton Press and a note card about the author and the book. No previous owner's names or marks, a beautiful, like new, gift quality copy. A collector's item.
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 father of four children and the author of over forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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- Bookseller
- Arabesque Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001457
- Title
- Bech At Bay: A Quasi-Novel, (Signed)
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Easton Press, (1998)
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Rabbit Run
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- 8vo
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