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Assorted Prose, John Updike, Signed, First Edition

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RABBIT AT REST Signed X2 JOHN UPDIKE Rabbit Run EASTON PRESS & Franklin Library: WRITER: John Updike (Reading, Pennsylvania, Danvers, Massachusettes, 1932-2009) TITLE: Rabbit at Rest, Signed, first edition, first printing, 1990, Rabbit Run, 1999 PUBLISHER: Easton Press, 1999, Fran

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Buchanan Dying -signed Updike, John: Buchanan Dying -signed Updike, John PA: Stackpole Bks, 2000 First edition, thus, first printing a special edition with a new forward by the author, signed by the author on the title page. Please note

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Rabbit Redux John Updike first limited numbered signed novel fiction HC: This is copy #68 of 350 first edition copies printed on special paper, and specially bound, of John Updike's novel, Rabbit Redux (406 numbered pages), published by Knopf in 1971 and signed by Updike o

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A Month of Sundays, Signed by John Updike, Limited First HC 317/450 1975 Novel: This is #317 of 450 specially bound first edition copies of John Updike's A Month of Sundays, published by Knopf in 1975, and signed by Updike on the limitation page. This is a near fine book in a nea

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Assorted Prose, John Updike, Signed, First Edition

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Assorted Prose by John Updike. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965. Very good first edition book in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on tipped-in page. Yellow cloth covered boards with silver text on front panel; silver and gilt text on spine. Spine is faded. Front panel is lightly scuffed. Edges along head and tail of board spine are creased. Book is internally clean and tight and likely unread.

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Condition

Dust jacket is lightly soiled overall. Fore-edge folds and spine a bit darkened. Edges at head and tail of jacket spine have small chips and creasing. Back edge of spine fold has three small rub throughs. Fore-edge corners minimally rubbed. Not price clipped.