Search Results: Authors starting with U from Charles Agvent

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.

(Minneapolis): Redpath Press, (1987). First Edition. Softcover. Slight darkening to spine. Near Fine. Etienne Delessert. Second Printing. Pictorial wraps (4" x 7-1/2"); 29 pages. Illustrated by Etienne Delessert. An story from PIGEON FEATHERS. Part of the Pleasant Dreams series created as small, charming gifts.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a mylar dustwrapper and about Fine slipcase with a tiny, narrow scrape. Copy #292 of 350 numbered and SIGNED copies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Soiling to bulked text fore-edge. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "for Bill Meredith,/my pretty little/orphan of a play/Best, John."

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As new, still in shrinkwrap. Bound in gilt-decorated brown leather. A limited true First Edition preceding the trade edition SIGNED by the author and with an introduction by him not present in the trade edition.

Shillington, PA, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Expected wear. Very Good. Published by the Senior Class of Shillington High School, Shillington, PA. Contains a dozen mentions/photos of Updike including a full-page devoted to him as the Class President with a photograph and what might be deemed a prose poem that has one correction in ink, possibly by Updike. Updike was also senior editor of the yearbook and contributes the Class Song and possibly another poem that has no attribution. He was also voted the "Wittiest." Much ink writing within by other students but none by Updike, all addressed to fellow student and former owner Mary Jean. An exceptionally early and scarce Updike item.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. wraps. Fine in a Near Fine green card slipcase with mild wear. Advance Reader Copy in white wraps and SIGNED by the author as issued of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the conclusion of Updike's Rabbit tetralogy.

n.p.: Albondocani Press, (1974). First Edition. Softcover. Fine in envelope. Stiff card covers with drawing by Robert Dunn. First issue with the cover drawing printed upside-down, one of only 75 copies thus of an intended 400 copies total, the remainder said by the publisher to have been destroyed, but at least a dozen or more survived. This poem by Updike was printed as a holiday greeting from Albondocani Press and Ampersand Books, with the errata statement from the publisher still tipped in. Also with a printed statement from the publisher about the publishing history of the piece and offering copies of the suppressed first issue at one hundred dollars.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a repaired chip at the head of the spine. Second issue with pages 45-46 a cancel, the first issue rather uncommon.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in gilt-decorated brown leather. A limited true First Edition preceding the trade edition SIGNED by the author and with an introduction by him not present in the trade edition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in dustwrapper and slipcase. One of 350 numbered and SIGNED copies. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and slipcase. Copy #307 of 500 numbered and SIGNED copies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Wraps. A bulky book. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in light blue wraps. Front cover with publisher's price and date of publication in ink and the publisher's information sheet stapled to the inside front cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Slightly cocked. Fine. Uncorected Proof in printed blue wraps.