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Updike, John (SIGNED). Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, 1976.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 250 signed copies of which this is number 241 Small scuff on front cover label, else fine
Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. Couples: A Short Story.. Cambridge: Halty Ferguson,, 1976.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 42 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 250 numbered copies on Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Updike.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, JOHN. COUPLES: A SHORT STORY. HALTY FERGUSON: CAMBRIDGE, 1976.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED BY JOHN UPDIKE. NUMBER 161 OF 250 COPIES. THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL 26 COPIES LETTERED A-Z.
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, MA, 1976.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 42 pages. First limited edition, one (68) of 250 copies signed by Updike on a special limitation page at the end of the book. Blue decorated wrappers with applied label. A short story written in 1963 and rejected by The New Yorker. As new book in a as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. Couples: A Short Story.. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, Massachusetts., 1976.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 42 pages. Wrappers. A story written in 1963 and rejected by The New Yorker.Number 209 of 250 copies signed by the author.Fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
UPDIKE, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, 1976.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 42pp., sewn wrappers, with integral dust wrapper. Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1i7u6. Limited Edition. Fine. One of 250 signed copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, 1976.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Decorated wrappers with applied label. Fine. Copy number 29 of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A58.a.1.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, 1976.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Decorated wrappers with applied label. Fine. Copy number 50 of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A58.a.1.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Couples:a Short Story. Halty Ferguson, 1976.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Patterned wrappers,paper label. Fine copy. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Updike, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, [Mass.], 1976.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by John Updike. Slightly rubbed on front cover (at tip of one corner), else a fine, bright copy First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by John Updike.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, 1976.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Of a total edition of 276 copies, this is copy number 16 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. This copy is also inscribed by Updike -- he has personalized the signature on the colophon in a different color ink -- and it includes a brief signed note by Updike on the prospectus, with a hand-addressed mailing envelope. By all appearances, Updike informed the collector of the existence of this edition by sending him a prospectus with a note saying "I thought you should be aware of this" and then the collector ordered the book and Updike personalized the signature for him. A mini-footnote to the relatively early years of Updike's being a highly collected author with numerous signed limited editions to his credit, with a glimpse of Updike's active involvement in helping a collector build his collection. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Couples: A Short Story. Halty Ferguson, Cambridge, 1976.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Decorated wrappers with applied label. Fine. Copy letter S of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. Although not called for, also Signed by the printers William and Raquel Ferguson, and dated by them on August 20, 1976. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A58.a.2.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.