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Bech is Back

Bech is Back

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Bech is Back

by Updike, John

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Near Fine/Very Good
ISBN 10
0394528069
ISBN 13
9780394528069
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About This Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo., 195pp. Sharp First Edition, First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of wear at the spine ends but fairly minor. Very attractive unclipped wrapper, ($13.95), has some light edge-wear and a crease on the front flap. A few areas of soiling. A solid collectable copy at a great price.

Synopsis

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Bookseller
Brenner's Collectable Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
004939
Title
Bech is Back
Author
Updike, John
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0394528069
ISBN 13
9780394528069
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1982

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