New York: Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394490428 . "To the list of John Updike's well-intentioned protagonists [...] add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820's, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861)." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Remainder stamp on tail edge. Text block is pulled away from spine head, small bumps on spine ends, head edge color lightly faded near spine, foxing on fore-edge; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has moderate edge and shelf wear, small creases on top corners and spine head, crease on front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages .

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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: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2754
Title: Buchanan Dying: A Play
Author: Updike, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0394490428
ISBN 13: 9780394490427
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: 0394490428

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