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About this Item: Knopf, New York, 2008. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is in fine condition with a very good priced (24.95) dust jacket. More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorce e's Alexandria, jane, and Sukie have left town, remarried and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do; they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and Chine, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for he summer? This book is a delight to John Updike fans. Very nice copy.

New York: Fawcett-Columbine, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Reverend Tom Marshfield one of Updike's most memorable characters. He is literate, charming, sexual, whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flocks, scandalizes his parish and makes for a very funny read. He does this all in seven days, A Month of Sundays. Book in very fine condition. FIRST PRINTING with full number line starting with 1. Book appears to be unread. This is a nice collectible paperback for the collector who wants a complete Updike library.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. John Updike's novel concerns a month of seventh days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace. In his wonderfully overwrought style the errant cleric spills day by day his confession his boyhood in a parsonage, his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his seduction of his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his biblical exegeses, his faith. Book is very,VERY funny. Book in near fine condition with slight bumping at spine ends and very slight chipping at spine bottom. Unclipped ($6.95) jacket is very good with wear at spine ends and corners. Book has a page on verso of half title page of Chinese characters and a pencil notation on ffep " Taiwan piracy". I assume this is a pirated book. Very interesting and… Read More

About this Item: Franklin Library, Franklin Center Pennsylvania, 1976. Hardcover. Condition: AS New. Barbara Fox (illustrator). 1st Edition. NEW book is beautifully bound in green top grain leather with gilt blind stamps and gilt spine lettering and a silk page marker tipped in. Book has never been opened. The illustrations by Barbara Fox are very fine. Updike has called his novel Marry Me, a romance. It would seem, at first, an ironic description; the story takes place in a world ill designed for romance: the world of Greenwood, Connecticut, ringed by shopping malls, car pools, and the trappings of suburbia. Beautiful book, fine read in AS NEW condition and a fine addition to any library. Seller Inventory # 001774

About this Item: Knopf, North Sidney, NSW, 1994. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is AS NEW in a near fine clipped dust jacket. All 22 of the stories in this collection, John Updike's eleventh, and his first in seven years (1994) in various ways partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own particular wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to prescient sexual rumors, from the death of mothers and brothers in law to the births of grandchildren. As death approaches, life takes on, for some of these aging heroes , a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misperception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Three of the stories collected here were included in volumes of The Best American Short Stories, and " A Sandstorm Farmhouse" won first prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1991. Book is AS NEW unmarked and probably unopened.… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 1893. 1st Edition First British edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book in Very good condition with gilded top edge and untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Book is quarter bound in original leather over green cloth boards. Corner slightly bumped and slightly worn. Spine lettering is gilded and in VG condition, except where publisher is noted, which is readable by chipped. An excellent copy of a 120 year old classic. Internally unmarked and still tight. may be signed on page xxv. I really can't tell. it may be printed.