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OF THE FARM
by John Updike
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394438981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394438986
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1988. Sixth Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8v. (174 pages). A very good copy of the Sixth Printing in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine with very faint sun-fading to the spine cloth and a former owner’s dated initials inked on the rear free endpaper. .
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
- Chartwell Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142108
- Title
- OF THE FARM
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394438981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394438986
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8v. (174 pages)
Terms of Sale
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