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The Coup
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394503554
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503554
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1978. Bound in the publishers green cloth with silver and gilt title lettering to spine. The 298 pages remain in fresh, crisp condition and are tightly bound. Book sits solid and square. Housed in the distinctive dark green dustwrapper with publishers printed price intact on front inside flap. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. The photograph provided is a picture of the book and the dustwrapper and we are happy to send more images on request. An attractive copy of this excellent John Updike novel.. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000495
- Title
- The Coup
- Author
- Updike, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394503554
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503554
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1978
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- Dustwrapper
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