Published by Knopf, N Y, 1972 Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover Edition With Dust jacket.and jacket protector. A Very Nice Copy.Text Unmarked, Binding Is Solid. Corners are sharp. Not an Ex-Library Copy. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 282 pages, (8-1/4" X 5/8/" X 1-1/8") ISBN 0394481739
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1979 Hardcover copy, first edition, first printing, 260 pages.. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good with a jacket protector. Stories written in 1971-1978. 8vo, light gray boards, red cloth back strip with gilt and silver gilt lettering, top edge decoratively tinted charcoal gray, faint foxing to fore-edge, corners sharp, in lightly shelf-worn and lightly soiled not clipped DJ. Text pages bright and unmarked.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
Hardcover, first edition, first printing, 316 pages. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is AS NEW in a near fine, not clipped, dust jacket. All 22 of the stories in this collection, John Updike's eleventh, and his first in seven years (1994) in various ways partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own particular wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to prescient sexual rumors, from the death of mothers and brothers in law to the births of grandchildren. As death approaches, life takes on, for some of these aging heroes , a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual perception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Three of the stories collected here were included in volumes of The Best American Short Stories, and " A Sandstorm Farmhouse" won first prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1991. Book is AS NEW unmarked and sports a jacket protector. Collectible. Size: 8vo - over 8-1/8" X 9-1/8" tall.
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