The Afterlife and Other Stories
New York: Knopf, 1995. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Some pages foxed.
22 short stories from Updike, many concerned with aging and attempts to sustain intimate relationships.
New York: Knopf, 1995. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Some pages foxed.
22 short stories from Updike, many concerned with aging and attempts to sustain intimate relationships.
New York: Fawcett, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing.
In this, the final volume in John Updike's mock-heroic trilogy about the Jewish American writer Henry Bech, our hero is older but scarcely wiser. Now in his seventies, he remains competitive, lecherous, and self-absorbed, lost in a brave new.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First UK Edition. Hard Cover.
First UK edition. Signed by author with inscription, "John, best wishes." Edges foxed, jacket reverse lighlty foxed, jacket price clipped.
ix, 262 pp. "In a play meant to be read, James Buchanan, 15th President of the U.S., relives his political and.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition in first state jacket with 'two small children' on rear flap (this was later corrected to 'four children'). Edges and jacket flaps/reverse lightly foxed.
viii, 82 pp. Author's first book. "Updike remarked in an interview collected by the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition in first state jacket with 'two small children' on rear flap (this was later corrected to 'four children'). Last gathering of pages slightly foxed on fore edge, rear jacket panel faintly soiled.
viii, 82 pp. Author's first book.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
xv, 838 pp. "A harvest and not a winnowing, The Early Stories preserves almost all of the short fiction John Updike published between 1954 and 1975. The stories are arranged in.....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1959. First UK Edition. Hard Cover.
First UK edition. Jacket price clipped, edges lightly foxed.
viii, 81 pp. Author's first book, originally published in the United States as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. This edition includes an author's note not included in the American.....
New York: Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
919 pp. Composed chiefly of Updike's book reviews of the past eight years, this collection includes pieces on Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, and Muriel Spark, on actresses Doris Day and Louise Brooks and an appendix of imaginary.....
New York: Knopf, 1996. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Trade Paperback. Lightly rubbed.
Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the.....
New York: Knopf, 1993. Limited Edition. Single Sheet.
Signed without inscription on top right portion. Rolled in cardboard tube.
22 3/4 x 10. Thick cream paper stock with a background design. This 37-line poem was originally published in The New Yorker in 1992, Updike's poem July is here printed as.....
New York: Knopf, 1992. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover.
First trade edition. Sticker remnant to jacket flap.
When junior college professor Alfred Clayton is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well. In a decade of sexual liberation, Clayton.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Fujita, S. Neil. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition.
viii, 98 pp. "In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped, rear jacket flap creased. Page ridge very faintly foxed.
228 pp. In this antic riff on Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Fujita, Neil. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Spine leans very slightly forward, edges lightly foxed.
228 pp. In this antic riff on Hawthorneâs Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Minor general wear to jacket. Boards soiled, page ridges lightly foxed.
xx, 185 pp. With a new introduction by the author. The hero of John Updike's first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus (first trade edition, following Franklin Library edition). Quarter inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, minor tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Remainder mark on page base, top page ridge very lightly bumped.
512.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "For Robert." Jacket lightly toned.
467 pp. The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light stain along bottom edge of jacket, half-inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket lightly toned. A few very minor stains on top page ridge, page ridge very faintly foxed.
406 pp. "The assumptions and.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed.
279 pp. 8vo. S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear.
279 pp. S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A bit smoky.
276 pp. Couched in the form of a day-long conversation between 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, living in seclusion in Vermont, and a chic young interviewer from New York, Updike's 20th novel is an ambitious attempt.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
276 pp. Couched in the form of a day-long conversation between 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, living in seclusion in Vermont, and a chic young interviewer from New York, Updike's 20th novel is an ambitious attempt.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover.
First trade edition. Faint edge wear.
257 pp. "John Updike's memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Edge wear to jacket.
307 pp. "In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches Alexandra Spoffard, sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Foxing to inner jacket and page ridge.
Selected by the award-winning author of the Rabbit novels, fifty-five of the most important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century feature masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa.....