THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
by UPDIKE, JOHN
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- FINE/NO JACKET
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About This Item
PENNSLYVANIA: FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1984. 1ST SPECIAL EDITION. HARDCOVER. FINE/NO JACKET. PENNSLYVANIA: FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1984. 1ST SPECIAL EDITION. FINE/NO JACKET. PENNSLYVANIA: FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1984. 1ST SPECIAL EDITION. FINE/NO JACKET. PENNSLYVANIA: FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1984. 1ST SPECIAL EDITION. FINE/NO JACKET. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1984. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Michael Deas (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As New. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Signed, Limited, and First Edition. Signed by John Updike on the second free end paper. Also, prior to pagination, 'A Special Message for the First Edition from John Updike'; then text. Octavo, 307 pp. + 1 pp 'A Note About the Author'. Illustrations by Michael Deas. Full rich deep green leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, ornately marbled endpapers, All Edges Gilt, with green satin page-marker ribbon. An example of Franklin's always-lavish bindings, in a limited, signed, first edition of the Updike's highly-variably-interpreted novel of three women in Rhode Island who become empowered with witchcraft abilities after their divorces. 22 k gilt at all page edges, and the always high-quality special paper is used. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless. As bright, tight and immaculate as it was on its first day in 1984. 1ST PRINTING
Synopsis
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1984 novel by John Updike.
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- Bookseller
- MySEABooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S73
- Title
- THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
- Author
- UPDIKE, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE
- Jacket Condition
- NO JACKET
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1ST SPECIAL EDITION
- Publisher
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY
- Place of Publication
- PENNSLYVANIA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION,LITERATURE;
- Product_type
- BOOKS
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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