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THE COUP
by Updike, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039450268X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502687
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1978. Second Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by Mr. Updike on Front Free Endpaper. SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION, published December 7, 1978 per copyright page with ISBN 0-394-50268-X. Dj has "12/78" on rear flap and ISBN on back panel. Condition of book and text is NEAR FINE due only to previous owner's gift inscription, else FINE. Condition of DJ is NEAR Fine with Price intact on first flap. DJ has normal age appropriate shelf wear. "One of Updike's boldest and most imaginative performances" (Newsweek). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou.
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's Inventory #
- 003604
- Title
- THE COUP
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 039450268X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502687
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION UPDIKE SIGNED AFRICA KUSH COUP
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