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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679435832 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed (to a Virginia collector) by author John Updike on the front fly-leaf; John Updike's account of Carter Billings for whom all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass." Updike's collection of twenty-two stories; 8vo; [xii], 316, [8] pages; Signed by Author .

Mankato, MN: Creative Education Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. c1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most handsome first edition/first printing, De Bellis/Broomfield A131. Unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. This short story was first published (as "The Same Door") in The New Yorker Magazine Magazine, March 22, 1958. A rather scarce title; Charlie joins the others in his fifth grade class in tormenting and ridiculing the unpopular new girl Joan, until a strange dream prompts him to treat her differently. (From the publisher) ; 8vo ; [1-4], 5-32 pages .

Mankato, MN: Creative Education Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. c1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first edition/first printing, De Bellis/Broomfield A131. About Fine condition in alike dustjacket. This short story was first published (as "The Same Door") in The New Yorker Magazine Magazine, March 22, 1958. A rather scarce title; Charlie joins the others in his fifth grade class in tormenting and ridiculing the unpopular new girl Joan, until a strange dream prompts him to treat her differently. (From the publisher) ; 8vo ; [1-4], 5-32 pages .

Mankato, MN: Creative Education Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. c1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most handsome first edition/first printing, De Bellis/Broomfield A131. Unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. This short story was first published (as "The Same Door") in The New Yorker Magazine Magazine, March 22, 1958. A rather scarce title; Charlie joins the others in his fifth grade class in tormenting and ridiculing the unpopular new girl Joan, until a strange dream prompts him to treat her differently. (From the publisher) ; 8vo ; [1-4], 5-32 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A nice first edition/first printing in Very Near Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author John Updike on a free front end page. De Bellis/Broomfield A16a; Updike's Assorted Prose includes his early essays of humor and parody, some reportage for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town, " his description of Ted Williams' last appearance in Fenway Park, several semi-autobiographical first person accounts, and numerous book reviews; 8vo; [4], xii, [2], 326, [8] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 037540368X . A most beautiful first Trade edition/first printing preceded only by an Easton Press private publication in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author John Updike directly on the front end paper. De Belllis/Broomfield A166b; A continuation of the chronicles of the protagonist of two of Updike's popular previous works, the "moderately well known Jewish-American writer," Henry Bech. The five stories herein follow Bech through Prague, France, Sweden, California, and New York, as a fictional counterpart through which Updike comments on the foibles--literary, academic, and cultural--of his, and our, times; 8vo; 1 leaf, [x], 240, [4] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 037540368X . A most beautiful first Trade edition/first printing preceded only by an Easton Press private publication in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author John Updike directly on the title page. De Belllis/Broomfield A166b; A continuation of the chronicles of the protagonist of two of Updike's popular previous works, the "moderately well known Jewish-American writer," Henry Bech. The five stories herein follow Bech through Prague, France, Sweden, California, and New York, as a fictional counterpart through which Updike comments on the foibles--literary, academic, and cultural--of his, and our, times; 8vo; 1 leaf, [x], 240, [4] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394528069 . A nice first edition/first printing in seemingly unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; Henry Bech, now fifty years old, reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and, as a suprise to all writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller; 8vo; [x], 195, [3] pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394528069 . First edition/first printing with minor bumps in about Fine condition in gently rubbed dustjacket with minor closed tears. De Bellis/Broomfield A96a; Henry Bech, now fifty years old, reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and, as a suprise to all writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller; 8vo; [x], 195, [3] pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394528069 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the title page. De Bellis/Broomfield A96a; Henry Bech, now fifty years old, reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and, as a suprise to all writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller; 8vo; [x], 195, [3] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394528069 . An attractive first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the title page. De Bellis/Broomfield A96a; Henry Bech, now fifty years old, reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and, as a suprise to all writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller; 8vo; [x], 195, [3] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394528069 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally unblemished dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author John Updike. There is a black publisher's stain to the top page edge; Henry Bech, now fifty years old, reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and, as a suprise to all writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller; 8vo; [x, 1-2], 3-195, [3] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394528492 . A nice special first edition/first printing, limited to 500 copies, no number given. SIGNED by the author John Updike directly on the limitation page, unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Encased in Fine publisher's slip case with little browning. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century, as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature. De Bellis/Broomfield A96b; Henry Bech, now fifty years old, reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and, as a suprise to all writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller; 8vo; [x], 195, [3] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine. 1999. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. Softcover. A handsome Advance Reading Copy (ARC) in unread Fine condition; Edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison, this massive book contains 55 extraordinary short stories from the Great American authors of the 20th century, including legendary names such as Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, E. B. White, Tennessee Williams and many others; 8vo .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0679430717 . First Trade edition/first printing, predeced only by a privately published Franklin Library edition in about Fine condition in alike dustjacket. De Bellis/Broomfield 150b; Updike's story of Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her powerful father who meet on the Copacabana Beach. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, they flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west ; 8vo; [viii], 260, [4] pages .

Worcester, MA: Metacom Press. Fine. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Flexible covers. A lovely Limited Numbered edition in Fine condition. The hand-set type was printed on beautiful Antique Laid paper and hand-sewn into French-fold soft marbled wrappers. Pasted-on title label on front cover. A Note on the printing of The Chaste Planet laid in. This copy is numbered 94 of 300 copies in this edition and is SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the limitation page; Unlike most of Updike's work, this is a story with a futuristic theme, the action taking place on the pleasant little planet of Minerva, which exists within the "semi-liquid immensity of Jupiter." As an adolescent, Updike enjoyed reading the genre and was quite pleased to be considered, however slightly, a writer of science fiction. Written in 1975, published in The New Yorker, and reprinted in the book Best SF: 75; 8vo ; Signed by Author .

New York: Holiday House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Second Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0823414450 . A most attractive second edition/first printing (originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1965) in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. De Bellis/Broomfield A17d; "A poem for each month catches the mood of the changing seasons"...so reads the subtitle of this charming book of poems for children. Each month of the year is celebrated with one of Updikes's poems and beautifully illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; Color Illustrations; 8vo; [vii], [25] pages .

New York: CLB. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Paperback. 1858334144 . Fine edition in Near Fine dustjacket with some mild wear; This book is an illustrated history of classical composers from antiquity to the present day. It includes portraits, biographical information, and music examples.; Color Illustrations; 208 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039450268X . A Very Good+ first printing of the first edition, publisher's remainder mark to bottom page edges, minor glue stain to front fly leaf, else Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author John Updike on the front fly leaf; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; Remainder; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 039450268x . A bright first edition/first printing in Fine, seemingly unread condition in alike dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages .