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Bech: A Book
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970 Limited edition of 500 specially bound hand-numbered copies signed by John Updike directly on the colophon. octavo, 206 pages. Light tanning to jacket spine, else book, dust jacket, and slipcase in fine condition.
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
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021299
- Title
- Bech: A Book
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FICTION, LITERATURE, SERIES.
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Colophon
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- Jacket
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