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Problems and Other Stories
by UPDIKE, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394507053
- ISBN 13
- 9780394507057
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394507053 . A stated first edition of this collection of 23 short stories by John Updike. Seventeen of these stories originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine. With a brief prefatory note by the author. --- In pale lavender paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with cover & spine titling in silver and gilt. Jacket features Updike-designed drawing of a love triangle. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Unclipped jacket with small nick to lower edge, else bright, inact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 260, (2) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86092
- Title
- Problems and Other Stories
- Author
- UPDIKE, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394507053
- ISBN 13
- 9780394507057
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0394507053
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Good+
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- Octavo
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