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Updike, John; Burkert, Nancy E.. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1965.
Price: US$18.96 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1965, 1965.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Hardbound Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert, illus. 8vo, Unpaginated, No DJ. General wear to covers. Small edge stain on vertical page edges. Front endpaper is stuck to the inside front cover. At first, appeared to be missing, but it is stuck to the binder's glue on the edges. Content pages are VG.
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Some edge wear, spotting and rubbing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Neat gift inscription on the front free endpaper else fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with short tears, rubbing, and a small abrasion on the rear panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Slightly cocked spine else near fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing and a small chip.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1965.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gibralter Library binding symbol to foot of back panel adjacent to spine. No dust jacket as issued with image of young girl with red headband in window with holiday cut outs attached. Light rubbing, scuffing and faint overall discoloration from age to pictorial boards. Small irregular discolored patch to corner of front panel as well as one small nick to joint of front board ~1 1/2" from foot of spine. Black sharpie remainder line to foot of text block adjacent to spine. Otherwise tight, bright, unmarked interior. Pictures provided upon request. Shipping confirmed!
Seller: Elizabeth Brown Books & Collectibles, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small internal stain.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, library issue. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Thin quarto. Pictorial boards. Fine, without dustwrapper (as the library issue was published). One of the author's scarce children's books. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A17.b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Thin quarto. Gift inscription else fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of one of the author's scarce children's books.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar (signed). Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ptg., large 8vo, full red cloth, with Nancy Eckholm Burkert's haunting pencil sketches in red and black. Inscribed to Andrew Simon by Updike on the half-title, with gift inscription above in a different hand. Interestingly, the authorial inscription was started on the back free endpaper before being restarted and finished in the front. Fine in edgeworn, unclipped dj with short closed tear to front cover.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Mild staining on the boards and a little bowing, a very good copy in very good first state dust jacket with some overall age-toning. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip laid in. The only Advance Review Copy we've seen.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar (Signed First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. Scarce library binding, in laminated pictorial boards. Signed by the author to a laid-in decorative bookplate. The book is near fine, with only light shelf/edge-wear and very minor soiling. A very sharp collectible copy, quite scarce in this issue/condition and with a signature. Please be sure to check out the other John Updike titles in our inventory. We ship all of our books bubble-wrapped in sturdy, very well-padded boxes, so they are guaranteed to arrive in the exact same condition as when they left. Please feel free to email with any questions/offers/trades and thank you for supporting small independent booksellers everywhere.
Seller: Dexter's Book Cellar, Stratford, CT, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Thin quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of one of the author's scarce children's books.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1965.
Price: US$374.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A square solid tight clean carefully used copy. The PC jacket has some rubbing wear, edge wear, lightish chipping at the top and heel of the spine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. This copy has been signed John Updike on the title page.
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition of John Updike's third book for children, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1965. Trade edition, bound in publisher's red cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Updike provides a poem for each month, illustrated, in turn, by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. A fine example of the book. The dust jacket is near fine with just the slightest trace of wear at extremities. This copy has been inscribed on the title page by John Updike.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. throughout. Just a hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Bookplate signed by Updike laid in. Collection of twelve poems for children, each about a month of the year, accompanied by Burkert's attractive illustrations.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 32 pages. First edition, first printing with 1965 on copyright page & no other printings noted. Illustrated by Nancy Eckholm Burkert. Signed by Updike & Burkert on the half title page. His 3rd book for children. A collection of 12 poems, one for each month of the year with Burkert's corresponding illustration. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with very slight rubbing to the top & bottom of the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.