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Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticisms - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394531795
- ISBN 13
- 9780394531793
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394531795 . A nice first edition/first printing in Near Fine, seemingly unread condition, shallow sunning at edges and slight wrinkle to spine, in Fine lightly tanned dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing the open sea". Edmund Wilson is one of the authors getting Updike's attention, others include Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Muriel Spark, Ann Tyler, etc. But also celebrities such as Louise Brooks, Doris Day, golfers Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer get their applause; 8vo; [2], x, 110, [6] pages .
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
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21539
- Title
- Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticisms - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394531795
- ISBN 13
- 9780394531793
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Betty Anderson
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Updike, John;
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