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Self-Consciousness
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039457222X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394572222
- Seller
-
Shelbyville, Indiana, United States
Item Price
£60.86£45.64
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Trade Edition , so stated. 257 pp. Magenta cloth with silver lettering /design to front and silver /gilt lettering to spine. This copy is FINE in a FINE, unclipped ($18.95), DJ dated "3/89" . Signed by Updike on title page. No noticeable blemishes. Bright, rich, crisp, and tight..
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
- Bailey Bonzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001996
- Title
- Self-Consciousness
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039457222X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394572222
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bailey Bonzo Books
Biblio member since 2020
Shelbyville, Indiana
About Bailey Bonzo Books
Bailey Bonzo Books....Specializing in collectble First Editions, SIGNED copies, Science Fiction/Fantasy, and RARE copies of all kinds.
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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