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Golf dreams : writings on golf
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0679450580
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450580
- Seller
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Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Signed. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Updike on FFEP. Mustard-yellow quarter cloth boards with silver foil titling on front and spine, lightly rubbed at extremities and spine faded. Minor flaw of a slight bump to rear upper edge. Binding is tight. Interior is bright and clean, and text is unmarked. Glossy pictorial, green-orange-yellow plaid, priceclipped dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W cartoons. 'Golf is neither work nor play [Updike] asserts: 'Golf is a trip.' He lyrically confesses, 'In many weathers inner and outer amid many a green and winding landscape, I have asked myself what the peculiar bliss of this demanding game is, a bliss that at times threatens to relegate all the rest of life...to the shadows.'... These thirty pieces of pure gold have been dug up from a great variety of sources. Some have been published in one or another of Mr. Updike's other collections; most have not. All have the lilt of a love song, and the crispness of a firm chip stiff to the pin.' (-from the endflap). xvi, 201 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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
- Quadrant Book Mart
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24199
- Title
- Golf dreams : writings on golf
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+/Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679450580
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450580
- Publisher
- Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 201
- Keywords
- Golf--Literary collections; Biography
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Quadrant Book Mart
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Easton, Pennsylvania
About Quadrant Book Mart
The Quadrant Book Mart and Coffee House stocks more than 50,000 carefully-chosen collectible, rare and out-of-print volumes—as well as reading copies—for a broad range of reader interests, including art, architecture, modern firsts, literary criticism, and regional, American and world history. For more than 20 years, proprietors Andris Danielsons and Joanne Moranville have prided themselves on offering titles that are fairly priced and meticulously evaluated for condition. Our brick-and-mortar location stands at the heart of the arts and cultural community of historic downtown Easton, Pa., where we welcome neighbors and new friends to peruse the stacks of books shelved in two stories and lining the dining room of our top-rated coffee house.
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- FFEP
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