Couples

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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1968
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NY: Knopf. 1968. The first of his novels to be both a critical and a substantial commercial success. Inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ with every good wish in her new environs/ John Updike." Foxing to cloth and edges of text block; mild splaying to boards; very good in a near fine dust jacket that is also foxed, mostly… Read more about this item
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Updike's First Novel Much of the plot of Couples (which opens on the evening of March 24, 1962 and integrates historical events like the loss of the USS Thresher on April 10, 1963, the Profumo affair, and the Kennedy assassination in November 1963) concerns the efforts of its characters to balance the pressures of Protestant sexual mores against increasingly flexible American… Read more about this item
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1968
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 4-458, [10] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the front board and silver and gold lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Updike's fifth novel. Very slight lean, a few small… Read more about this item
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by John Updike

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1968
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 458 pages. First edition, second printing. 8vo, blue cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, boards sunned at their extremities and with small spots of soil, blue tint to top edge faded and foxed, in unclipped DJ that's raggedy across the top (chips and tears) and has small chips at… Read more about this item
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1968
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"A rich, tightly wrought book..." First edition , third impression ( Reprinted before publication). Slightly foxed book block edge and an erasure visible on fep. Dust jacket is price clipped and has a small, closed tear to the rear
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1968
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London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Stated 2nd impression at base of front fly. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ artwork detail… Read more about this item
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of the better books from the prolific author of the Henry Bech series and Rabbit Angstrom series. A powerful novel that deals with adultery. A very good copy with some faint foxing to the foredge in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with some creasing… Read more about this item
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Used - Near Fine; Paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Andrew Holmes.
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1981
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Paperback
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Near Fine; Paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks . inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Andrew Holmes. Heavy book and . priced accordingly.. 1981. Reprint. Paperback. Ninth Printing; 512 pages; All well-to-do, all thirty-five-ish, ten couples living in Tarbox, New England, form an excusive, competitive group. They… Read more about this item
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1968
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VG+ / VG 1968 knopf, stated first edition. Hardcover. Only flaw is a 1/2" tear to the top rear of the jacket.
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Couples

by Updike, John, 1933-2009

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NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4 leaves, 458 p., 3 leaves; 22 cm. Follows the lives of a group of couples in an upper-class Boston suburb through their parties, recreations, child neglect, and wife-swapping. Stock#NEU375. Good+, spine sunned / no dj.
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1968
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good with faded spine and top stain, small stain on back cover and bottom page edge, in a very good lightly worn dustwrapper with a small hole in back panel and stain on bottom of spine.
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1968
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COUPLES

COUPLES

by John Updike

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1968
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1968. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light bumping along front panel edge and spine crown/heel. Small tear on rear panel. Bumping along front flap. Pages are deckled. .
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Couples

by Updike, John

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1970
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Couples

by Updike, John

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1993
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Couples

by Updike, John

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1985
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Fawcett Books, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Couples

by John Updike

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1968
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Penguin Books. Fair. 19.8 x 12.8 x 2 centimetres (0.3. Paperback. 1968. 506 pages. Cover worn. Spine faded. Text tanned <br>The provocati ve novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual f rankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely gr aphic portrayal of love, marriage and adultery in America. From t he Paperback edition. .
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COUPLES

by Updike, John

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1968
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Hardcover
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good. 8vo. Green cloth, with gilt spine titles. 458 pages. Small ink "c" on corner of Front FEP. No other marks. Illustrated dust jacket (with price intact) has a piece missing at foot of spine (not affecting lettering). Dust-jacket design by Patricia Davey. Early printing of English edition,… Read more about this item
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Couples

by Updike, John

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1968
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London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Chipping top edge of jacket flap.. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 0233960740 . 4th impression.750gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 460 pages .
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Couples: A Short Story.

Couples: A Short Story.

by UPDIKE, John.

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1976.
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Cambridge: Halty Ferguson,, 1976.. First edition, numbered & signed issue.. 42 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 250 numbered copies on Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Updike.
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