S.
by Updike, John
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- As New/Fine
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Limited edition. hard cover. As New/Fine. New York:Alfred A. Knopf. 1988. Limited edition of 350 copies, signed by Updike on the limitation page. In fine condition. Still in publishers shrinkwrap. As new.
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
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23514
- Title
- S.
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; JOHN UPDIKE; LIMITED EDITION; SIGNED;
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Parnassus Book Service
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Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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