BECH AT BAY: A Quasi-Novel
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 037540368X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403682
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1998. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Updike's third book featuring his well-known, Jewish-American writer-celebrity, Henry Bech, details five more chapters in Bech's life, taking him from Czechoslavakia to California among other stops; text is clean, unmarked, tight, square in dustjacket showing only very minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of over forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002599
- Title
- BECH AT BAY: A Quasi-Novel
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, First Trade Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 037540368X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403682
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- MODERN FICTION, FIRST EDITION, NOVEL, WRITERS, LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Novel; California; Fine Literature;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.