John Updike. July (framed broadside). Knopf, 1993.

Price: US$230.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A framed broadside featuring Updike's poem "July," signed at the upper right. 11 x 23.5 inches framed. Thick cream paper stock with a faint background portrait of a smiling Updike. The poem was originally published in "The New Yorker" in 1992, and here celebrates the publication of his "Collected Poems: 1953-1993." The broadside appears fine, but has not been examined out of frame; the frame is solid wood, painted black, in good shape except for some chipping of paint to lower edge, mainly, and little to upper. With wire at back and ready to hang. Please note: This item can't go media rate, so shipping will be at cost via USPS (an additional shipping fee will be requested after getting a quote from the post office). // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.

Updike, John. July [Signed Broadside]. Knopf, 1993.

Price: US$231.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Signed without inscription on top right portion. Rolled in cardboard tube. 1993 Single Sheet. 22 3/4 x 10. Thick cream paper stock with a background design. This 37-line poem was originally published in The New Yorker in 1992, Updike's poem July is here printed as a broadside in conjunction with the publication of his Collected Poems: 1953-1993. These broadsides were designed to be distributed to booksellers as promotional items. "Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that "I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form." The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity." His poetry has been praised for its engagement with "a variety of forms and topics," its "wit and precision," and for its depiction of topics familiar to American readers.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. July (Signed Broadside). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Broadside that measures 10.125" x 22.625." Published to promote the publication of "Collected Poems 1953-1993." A very near fine copy of this attractive broadside that has an illustration of Updike in the background and is printed in multiple colors. Signed by Updike. Seemingly fairly uncommon. (De Bellis & Broomfield A143).

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Updike, John. July (Broadside Poem). Knopf, New York, 1993.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: The broadside poem "July", issued to accompany Updike's "Collected Poems", and thus a very limited promotional item and quite SCARCE in the marketplace. SIGNED by John Updike. Very Fine, and archivally matted and framed under glass in black metal frame, wired and ready-to-hang.* Because of glass and large size this item will require additional shipping.* Size: 10" x 22 5/8"

Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.