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The Coup
by Updike, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394503554
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503554
- Seller
-
Crockett, California, United States
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About This Item
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 467 Pp. COPYRIGHT 1978. DESCRIPTION: GREEN BUCKRAM HARDBOUND, GILT SILVER AND GOLD GILT STAMPED TITLE ON SPINECOVER AND FRONT BOARD, COLOR ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET. DIMENSIONS: 8 5/8" x 6" x 1 1/4." BOOK AND DUST JACKET CONDITION: VERY GOOD +; SPINE HEEL/CROWN VERY GENTLY BUMPED (DUST JACKET EDGES WORN AT SPINE CROWN/HEEL HINGE CORNERS, RUBBED DUSTJACKET COVER), ENDPAPERS SLIGHTLY AGE TONED, SQUARE SPINE, APPEARS UNREAD, TIGHT AND CLEAN TEXT, PENCIL PRICING NOTE ON FRONT ENDPAPER; AN ATTRACTIVE COPY.
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
- De Coux and Associates Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001336
- Title
- The Coup
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394503554
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503554
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 298
- Keywords
- General, Popular
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
De Coux and Associates Books
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Crockett, California
About De Coux and Associates Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
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