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MARRY ME
by Updike, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Not Issued
- Seller
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Fernandina Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1976. First edition. "Special Message" by Updike for this edition. Illustrated by Barbara Fox. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards, all edges gilt, satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Inscribed by Updike on the front free endpage. "for John Hawkins my esteemed 'other' editor - with gratitude and warm regards John Updike." Hawkins was Updike's editor for his Franklin Library publications. Marrry Me was their first collaboration. Also includes the publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet illustrated by David Blossom. The booklet has faint beginning edge toning; the book has a spot of wear on the foreedge gilt and minimal shelfwear (not immediately apparent); it is an unread copy in Near Fine condition.. Inscribed by Author. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Not Issued. Illus. by Barbara Fox. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association 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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- Bookseller
- Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3098
- Title
- MARRY ME
- Author
- Updike, John
- Illustrator
- Barbara Fox
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Inscribed Association Copy
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
Fernandina Beach, Florida
About Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Revere Books has offered collector-condition first editions primarily of 20th century American and British fiction and poetry since 1991. Signed copies are a specialty. Member, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) & the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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