Gertrude and Claudius
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 2000. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 215 pages, 8vo. Signed by John Updike. Limited to 1000 copies. Privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Illustrated. Includes bound ribbon bookmark. Two raised bands along hubbed spine. Marbled inside covers and free endpapers. Bound in genuine leather. No visible shelfwear. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Fine condition..
Synopsis
Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in the medieval Denmark depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae Danicae, but incorporates extra plot elements added by François de Belleforest in his Histoires tragiques, published in 1576.
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- Bookseller
- Russian Hill Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39684
- Title
- Gertrude and Claudius
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Penn.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED LEATHER BOUND LITERATURE
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About Russian Hill Bookstore
Russian Hill Bookstore, established in 1974, is one of the last family-owned used and new bookstores in San Francisco. We began as Sunset Bookstore in 1974, a small used bookshop servicing the Sunset District west of 19th Avenue, and have been in continual operation for the past 43 years. Over the years Sunset Bookstore has since closed and merged with Russian Hill Bookstore, which has grown to become also the best note card shop in the city, and a favorite place for toys and games for children of all ages.
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