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UPDIKE, John [SIGNED]. Six Poems. Aloe Editions, [New York], 1973.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall 8vo. Unpaginated. Gray textured wrap, titles in red and black, French flaps, hand stitched. Printed at the Oliphant Press by Ronald Gordon. Of an edition limited to 100, this copy is hand numbered 81. Signed by the author beneath the colophon. Very faint age-tone shadow to the covers. These poems first appeared in various literary magazines 1969 - 1973. A handsome, presentable copy now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [5pp.]. Very near fine in the publisher's green sewn wraps. Faintest, most trivial offsetting to the front wrap, else a very nice example. This is number 21 of 100 limited copies SIGNED by Updike on the limitation page (of a total limitation of 126).
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$193.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wrappers. Some mild creasing, covers slightly faded at very edges. One of "26 lettered copies, signed by the author, for private distribution" [of an edition of 126], printed at the Oliphant Press by Ronald Gordon - this copy, however, unlettered; with the bookplate of Sir Michael Holroyd. "When I first saw Ipswich, I had been married about three hours, was twenty-one years old, and didn't much care where I was . . . A town begins by being anyplace and ends as the Only Place." Questioning the worth of literary biography, in an article for The New York Review of Books in 1999, John Updike singled out the works of "the estimable Michael Holroyd". Holroyd responded characteristically. "I can attack biography from the inside," he wrote. "The truth is that biographers flatter themselves - after all, no one else will."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 9 pages. First edition, one (99) of 100 numbered copies out of a total of 125 total published. Signed by Updike on the limitation page at the end of the book. Printed at The Oliphant Press by Ronald Gordon. This essay originally appeared in the Ford Times and was written on the occasion of Ipswich, Massachusetts' Seventeenth Century Day in 1972. Fine in string-tied wrappers with the only flaw being a hint of fading to the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. A Good Place.. [NY]: Aloe Editions,, 1973.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: [10 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Updike. Additionally INSCRIBED by Updike on the front free endpaper, "for David / a big spender / Best, / John Updike."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A GOOD PLACE. Aloes Editions, (NY), 1973.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited to 100 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by Updike on the limitation page as issued. Copy #83. Sewn wraps. Printed at The Oliphant Press by Ronald Gordon. Essay which originally appeared in "Ford Times" in a slightly different form and written on the occasion of Ipswich, Massachusetts' Seventeenth Century-Day 1972. Fine condition.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. String-tied self-wrappers. Slight sunning along the spine, else fine. Copy 73 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. String-tied self-wrappers. Slight sunning along the spine, else fine. Copy 96 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. String-tied self-wrappers. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. String-tied self-wrappers. Slight sunning along the spine, else fine. Copy 1 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. String-tied self-wrappers. Very slight sunning at the spine else fine. Copy letter F of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. *DeBellis and Broomfield* A47b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. String-tied self-wrappers. Very slight sunning at the spine else fine. Copy letter A of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. *DeBellis and Broomfield* A47b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.