Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
by John Updike
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0679450580
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450580
- Seller
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Rockaway Beach, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 201 pages. There are no marks or writing in the book. Corners are square. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Dust jacket has shelf wear. Wear to the front cover.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good +. Illus. by Paul Szep. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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- First Class Used Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012866
- Title
- Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
- Author
- John Updike
- Illustrator
- Paul Szep
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679450580
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450580
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Gilt
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- Shelf Wear
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