| Notes: Updike, John : Warm wine: An idyll. New York : Albondocani Press, Publication No. 16, 1973. First edition/first printing, limited to 276 copies, of which 250 were for sale; this is no. 115. Size is (slender) octavo (8vo), 8.375"/21.5cm h. Bound in publisher's hand-sewn French marbled paper over black wrappers, title/author label fixed to front. 24 pp/12 sheets, not paginated. Short story; colophon. Condition notes: a very nice copy indeed: very light wear to wrappers; bookseller pencil notes, discreetly, to ffep; Updike's signature to colophon page. Gift appropriate. We personally inspect every book we offer. |