Assorted Prose

New York: Knopf, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, dust jacket, xii, 326 pages, Includes bibliographical references, Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing including, CONTENTS:The American man : what of him? -- Anywhere is where you hang you hat -- What is a rhyme? -- Drinking from a cup made cinchy -- On the sidewalk -- Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize -- Confessions of a wild bore -- The unread book route -- Alphonse Peintre -- Mr. Ex-resident -- Central Park -- No dodo -- Voices in the Biltmore -- Our own Baedeker -- Postal complaints -- Old and precious -- Spatial remarks -- Dinosaur egg -- Upright carpentry -- Crush vs. whip -- Me´tro gate -- Cancelled -- Morality play -- Obfuscating coverage -- Bryant Park -- John Marquand -- Two heroes -- Doomsday, Mass. -- Grandma Moses -- Spring rain -- Eisenhower's eloquence -- Mostly glass -- Three documents -- Free bee-hours -- Beer can -- Modern art -- The assassination -- T.S. Eliot -- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu-The dogwood tree : a boyhood -- The lucid eye in silver town -- My uncle's death -- Outing : a family anecdote -- Mea culpa : a travel note -- Eclipse -- Poetry from Downtroddendom -- Snow from a dead sky -- Franny and Zooey -- Credos and curios -- Beerbohm and others -- Rhyming Max -- No use talking -- Stuffed fox -- Honest horn -- Faith in search of understanding -- Tillich -- More love in the western world -- A foreword for young readers -- Creatures of the air -- Between a wedding and a funeral -- How How it is was -- Grandmaster Nabokov. Includes "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" a story of Ted Williams last game, which Updike attended. Williams hit a home run the last time at bat. One the best American sports stories, spine shows some fade as usual, light chipping to spine ends of d.j. in protective mylar..