Buchanan Dying

by Updike, John

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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BUCHANAN DYING

BUCHANAN DYING

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Soiling to bulked text fore-edge. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "for Bill Meredith,/my pretty little/orphan of a play/Best, John."
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London: Andre Deutsch. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1974. First English Edition. Hardcover. A play by John Updike, about John Buchanan, the 15th USA President. The somewhat uncommon signed British first edition. A very fine book flat signed by Updike. Housed in a fine clipped jacket (as seen to be the case with most copies) , now… Read more about this item
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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Stackpole Books, 2000. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Pictorial end pages.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good +.
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Stackpole Books, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good++/Very Good++. This is a solid black spine on a red board Play by John Updike. c2000. 1st Edition & 1st Printing. The book and jacket are in very nice condition both inside and out. Clean & bright cover with nice edges. Tight & unmarked pages. No names. Bright… Read more about this item
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Buchanan Dying: A Play

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1974
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x6x1. Signed by author. First UK edition. Signed by author with inscription, "John, best wishes." Edges foxed, jacket reverse lighlty foxed, jacket price clipped. 1974 Hard Cover. ix, 262 pp. "In a play meant to be read, James Buchanan, 15th President of the U.S., relives his… Read more about this item
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($6.95 price intact). Published by Knopf, 1974. Octavo. Brown cloth boards stamped in white with illustrated endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very… Read more about this item
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NY: Knopf, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, In a play meant to be read, Buchanan's political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging Afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait, Clean copy. Record # 381966
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Playfully inscribed by Updike on the front free endpaper to a close friend and noted author: "Nicholas Delbanco is my best friend /s/ James Buchanan." An amusing inscription.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "for Herb Yellin, Best wishes, John Updike." Herb Yellin was the founder and publisher of Lord John Press and the most frequent of Updike's fine press collaborators. He named his press after noting that the list of authors he… Read more about this item
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Signed by Updike, and surprisingly uncommon thus.
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Buchanan Dying: A Play

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Buchanan Dying

Buchanan Dying

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1974
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Buchanan Dying

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A play from the prolific author of such classics as "Rabbit, Run" and "Couples." A close to near fine copy with a remainder mark to the bottom edge in a very good dust jacket with some rumpling to the bottom of the rear panel which also has some tears to… Read more about this item
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip and promotional author photograph laid in. Octavo; dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in silver and gilt on spine and front cover; dark gray topstain; dustjacket; x,262,[6]pp. Hint of foxing to text edges, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine,… Read more about this item
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