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Alfred A.Knopf, 1981. Very Good/good. Book is good, slight wear to top of dust jacket Colors are vibrant, clean copy.

A collection of essays and criticism discusses odd jobs, the female body, the Fourth of July, the Gospel of Matthew, Shaw, Anderson, Hemingway, Roth, Murdoch, Eco, Garcia Marquez, and others.
Stated First Edition,Knopf 10/15/1991. Book in Very good condition, clean and bright. Slight pulling of the spine at top. DJ shows slight shelf wear, some bleeding through at top of spne, on DJ, barely noticeable book not affected.

Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1968. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1968. Blue cloth over boards, silver lettering. Very Good/Good. Updike's First Novel. Much of the plot of Couples (which opens on the evening of March 24, 1962 and integrates historical events like the loss of the USS Thresher on April 10, 1963, the Profumo affair, and the Kennedy assassination in November 1963) concerns the efforts of its characters to balance the pressures of Protestant sexual mores against increasingly flexible American attitudes toward sex in the 1960s The book suggests that this relaxation may have been driven by the development of birth control and the opportunity to enjoy what one character refers to as "the post-pill paradise. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1968. First Edition later printing. Very Good, slight white dusting at top of front cover, tight and clean. Blue cloth over boards, silver lettering. DJ not so good needs help, shelf wear at top and bottom, open tears at top and bottom of spine and back cover. not clipped.

Knopf, First Edition, First Printing, 1987. Knopf, First Edition, First Printing 04/12/1987. Light Blue paper over boards/dark cloth dark blue spine silver lettering. Near Mint, clean, bright, no soilind or yellowing./DJ Very Good+. vibrant, clean, very slight scratches to back as in indentation ,no penetration, back flap has a fold mark. not clipped, $17.95. Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them, leaving each other, loving each other, often at the same time. Here is passion ignited and quenched, absurd hope, ineffectual regret. Here is life as we live it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career . . Knopf, First Edition, First Printing 04/12/1987. Near Mint, clean, bright, no soilind or yellowing. Light Blue paper over boards/dark cloth dark blue spine silver lettering. DJ Very Good+. vibrant, clean, very slight scratches to back as in indentation ,no penetration, back… Read More

Knopf, 2004. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2004. Mustard colored paper over boards, mustard cloth spine, Silver lettering. Near Mint/Mint. John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six Golf Dreams collects the most memorable of his golf pieces, high-spirited evidence of his learning, playing, and living for the game The camaraderie of golf, the perils of its present boom, how to relate to caddies, and how to manage short putts are among the topics he addresses, sometimes in lyrical essays, sometimes in light verse, sometimes in wickedly comic fiction All thirty pieces have the lilt of a love song, and the crispness of a firm chip stiff to the pin. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2004, Stated First Published 09/96, Reprinted 5 times, Seventh Printing, April 2004. Near Mint, Mustard colored paper over boards, mustard cloth spine. DJ Mint, not clipped,$27.50.

Knopf First Edition, 1988. Kopf First Edition, 03/1988. Preceded by a limited edition. Pink paper over boards, pink cloth spine with silver lettering. Very Good, slight bump at top of front coner./DJ Very Good, some shelf wear, not clipped. S. is an American woman who leaves her husband and her home for a commune in the Arizona desert in search of karma--and in pursuit of her guru. The story takes the form of letters and tapes as S. writes to her relatives and friends. 1988 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover. S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release. Kopf First Edition, 03/1988. Preceded by a limited edition. Very Good, slight bump at top of front coner. DJ Very Good, some shelf wear, not clipped. Pink paper over… Read More

BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures.To tell you any more, dear reader, would be to spoil the joy of reading this hexy, sexy novel by the incomparable John Updike.Praise for New York Times Bestseller The Witches of Eastwick:"A dazzling book . . . Updike is devilishly clever."–Los Angeles Times"New England's past and present are brilliantly interwoven in this narrative . . . [Updike] has brought [this] culture wittily and radiantly to life."–The New… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, New York] First Edition Published November, 1971. Rabbit Redux, his sixth novel, is a sequel to Rabbit Run(1960), brings back Harry 'Rabbit" Angstrom who is no longer athletic in an America that is no longer the America of Eisenhowers presidency.

Updike's First Novel
Much of the plot of Couples (which opens on the evening of March 24, 1962 and integrates historical events like the loss of the USS Thresher on April 10, 1963, the Profumo affair, and the Kennedy assassination in November 1963) concerns the efforts of its characters to balance the pressures of Protestant sexual mores against increasingly flexible American attitudes toward sex in the 1960s. The book suggests that this relaxation may have been driven by the development of birth control and the opportunity to enjoy what one character refers to as "the post-pill paradise."

In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year—at midpoint.  These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane.

(1990), 1990. First American Edition. A signed first edition of this book ha been privately printed by Franklin Llibrary/Very good. A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terrain of late middle age and lookinfrom booksellerg for reasons to live.

Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1984. Alfred A Knopf, New York (1984). Violet cloth over boards, silver lettering. Very Good/Very Good. show more ↓ BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES. In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures. To tell. Alfred A Knopf, New York, First Trade Edition , First Printing, 04/12/1984 A first signed edition of this book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library. Published May 21, 1984. Very Good, solid, clean ,no writing, or labels. Violet cloth over boards,… Read More

Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. A dark-eyed dreamer with a taste for foreign adventure, he for decades has sought to quell his love for Gertrude, and at last returns to an Elsinore whose prince is generally elsewhere. Gaps and inconsistencies within the immortal play are to an extent filled and explained in this prequel; the figure of Polonius, especially, takes on a larger significance. Beginning in the aura of pagan barbarism, and anticipating Renaissance humanism and empiricism, this modern retelling of a medieval t

Knopf First Edition 01/16/1966, 1996. Knopf First Trade Edition 01/16/1966. Stated: Published January 31, 1996. Reprinted Once. Third Printing Before Publication. A signed First Edition of this book has beenprinted by Franklin Library. Green paper over boards, silver lettering. Near Mint clean,/DJ Near Mint, clean,vibranr, no scratches,as new, not clipped.. Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become a salesman, he becomes a movie addict as well. ID # 862 Knopf First Edition 01/16/1966. Stated: Published January 31, 1996. Reprinted Once. Third Printing Before Publiction. A signed First Edition of this book has beenprinted by Franklin Library. Near Mint clean, bright as New. Hardcover, 491 pages, 8.6 x 5.9 inch. Green paper over… Read More

Alfred A.Knopf , NY, stated First Edition,04/1969, 1969. Alfred A.Knopf , NY, stated First Edition,04/1969. Tan cloth over boards, gold lettering. Very Good clean, solid, sligh spot on front cover, no bumped corners./DJ Very Good, not damage, clean.not clipped $4.50.. In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year at midpoint These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. Alfred A.Knopf , NY, stated First Edition,04/1969. Very Good clean, solid, sligh spot on front cover, no bumped corners. DJ Very Good, not damage, clean.not clipped $4.50. Tan cloth over boards, gold lettering. Very Good Copy.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Alfred A. Knopf, New York] First Edition Published November, 197. Alfred A. Knopf, New York] First Edition Published November, 1971. Bookinnear fineconditio, nopriceclipped, very clean with a g/Very Good. Alfred A Knopf, New York] First Edition Published November, 1971 Rabbit Redux, his sixth novel, is a sequel to Rabbit Run(1960), brings back Harry 'Rabbit" Angstrom who is no longer athletic in an America that is no longer the America of Eisenhowers presidency.

Knopf, 2006. Knopf, First Edition, 2006 Printed June, 2006. Blue cloth over boards, silver lettering. Knopf, First Edition, 2006 Printed June, 2006, near mint condition with near mint dj./near fine. The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Knopf, First Edition, 2006 Printed June, 2006, near mint condition with near mint dj.

Knopf, 1991. Stated First Edition,Knopf 10/15/1991. Book in Very good condition, clean and bright./Very Good. A collection of essays and criticism discusses odd jobs, the female body, the Fourth of July, the Gospel of Matthew, Shaw, Anderson, Hemingway, Roth, Murdoch, Eco, Garcia Marquez, and others Stated First Edition,Knopf 10/15/1991 Book in Very good condition, clean and bright Slight pulling of the spine at top DJ shows slight shelf wear, some bleeding through at top of spne, on DJ, barely noticeable book not affected.

Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1976. Alfred A Knopf, New York, Stated First Trade Edition 10/12/1976. Blue cloth over boards, silver letter. Near Mint,clean, cover and text vibrant, no writing/DJ Near Mint clean and bright, no soiling, no tears, not clipped, front flap price, $7.95. It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet." NEWSWEEK. A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it. A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it. Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act like that any more," centers on the love affair of a married couple in the Connecticut of 1962. Unfortunately, this is a couple whose members are married to other people. Suburban infidelity is familiar ...more (Good Read). Alfred A Knopf, New York, Stated First Trade Edition 10/12/1976. A Limited Edition of this book has been privately printed. Near Mint,clean, cover and text vibrant, no writing or… Read More

Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become a salesman, he becomes a movie addict as well. "In the Beauty of the Lilies" is as ambitious as the title itself