Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 467 Pp. FIRST EDITION. COPYRIGHT 1987. DESCRIPTION: 1/3 DARK BLUE BUCKRAM HARDBOUND, PALE BLUE PAPER COVERED BOARDS, GILT STAMPED TITLE ON SPINECOVER AND FRONT BOARD, COLOR ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET. DIMENSIONS: 8 1/8" x 5 1/2" x 1 1/8." DUST JACKET CONDITION: NEAR FINE. BOOK CONDITION: VERY GOOD +; SPINE HEEL/CROWN VERY GENTLY BUMPED, SQUARE SPINE, APPEARS UNREAD, TIGHT AND CLEAN TEXT, PENCIL PRICING NOTE ON FRONT ENDPAPER; AN ATTRACTIVE COPY.

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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: De Coux and Associates Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001340
Title: Trust Me: Short Stories
Author: Updike, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0394558332
ISBN 13: 9780394558332
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Place of Publication: Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
Pages: 467
Keywords: General, Popular, Short Stories (single author)

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