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Rabbit Angstrom: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, & Rabbit at Rest (Signed by Author)
by Updike, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679444599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679444596
- Seller
-
Crockett, California, United States
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About This Item
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1519 p. Inscribed by author on front free end paper. Copyright 1995. Book description: Red publishers cloth hardbound, black title label on spine cover/front board, gilt title stamped/embossed on spine cover/front board, color illustrated dust jacket, transparent mylar protector over dust jacket. Dimensions: 8 1/4" x 5 3/8" x 3". Book condition: Very good; exposed gutter at title page (strong square spine with tiight binding otherwise), soft crease/earmark at upper corner of pages effect introduction pages (ix-45 Pp.), clean bright text pages. Dust jacket condition: Fine. A nice copy.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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 . He was the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. He died in 2009.
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- Bookseller
- De Coux and Associates Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001813
- Title
- Rabbit Angstrom: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, & Rabbit at Rest (Signed by Author)
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679444599
- ISBN 13
- 9780679444596
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 1519
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
De Coux and Associates Books
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About De Coux and Associates Books
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
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