New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight over-all clean carefully read copy. This copy has some light pagedge soil, light fading to board extremities. The 35.00 jacket has some rubbing wear, light soil, light edge wear. A 900+ page compilation edition that contains most of the author's essays and criticisms published during his career. Over-all a pretty nice copy without the usual wear and lean associated with a volume this physical size. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. This copy has been signed John Updike on the title page. .

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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: Pat Cramer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 039772
Title: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
Author: UPDIKE, JOHN
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
ISBN 10: 0679404147
ISBN 13: 9780679404149
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1991
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Bookseller catalogs: Collection; Literature;

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Pat Cramer, Bookseller

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I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.

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