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[SIGNED by All] A Century of Arts & Letters

by Updike, John and 10 Others

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SIGNED on the title page by the editor, John Updike, as well as all the other contributors: Louis Auchincloss, Jack Beeson, Hortense Calisher, Ada Louise Huxtable, Wolf Kahn, R.W.B. Lewis, Richard Lippold, Norman Mailer, Cynthia Ozick, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Copies signed by all 11 contributors are scarce to the market.

This volume is a history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photos. Issued without a dust jacket.

PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto 10 1/4 x7 1/8 inches; 260 x 180 mm), xii, [4] 346 pages, in red cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine. No dust jacket was issued.

CONDITION: Front hinge a bit loose but holding. Some minor rubbing to the boards, small stain to upper board's right edge, small scrape to the lower board's list of contributors, not affecting any text. Internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better.

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Bookseller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 626
Title: [SIGNED by All] A Century of Arts & Letters
Author: Updike, John and 10 Others
Book Condition: Used - Very Good or Better
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Literary History
Bookseller catalogs: Literary History;

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