Andre Deutsch, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Theatre & Plays; ISBN: 0233965645. ISBN/EAN: 9780233965642. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 24698. . 9780233965642

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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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Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 24698
Title: Buchanan Dying: A Play
Author: John Updike
Format/Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0233965645
ISBN 13: 9780233965642
Publisher: Andre Deutsch
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: BZDB1 Theatre & Plays; ISBN: 0233965645 EAN: 9780233965642 John Updike Buchanan Dying: A Play
Bookseller catalogs: Theatre & Plays;

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