Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. One card leaf folded to make four pages. Slight offsetting on front cover else about fine. Variant with hand-printed copyright notice. A single poem issued by the publishers as a Christmas greeting. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Softcover. Single sheet folded once to create 4 pages. The variant issue with printed copyright on the last page. A new poem by Updike issued for the Holiday Season by the publishers. A fine copy in a very near fine copy of the publisher's unused envelope. (DeBellis & Broomfield A67).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Bifolium, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Fine. A Christmas keepsake for 1978. Variant with printed copyright notice.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. One card leaf folded to make four pages. Fine. Variant with printed copyright notice. A single poem issued by the publishers as a Christmas greeting. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Presumably the first state of this somewhat scarce holiday keepsake, lacking the handwritten printed copyright at the bottom of the rear cover. While some listings of this title claim that copies with the copyright are rare, all of the other copies currently for sale include it, while this copy does not. Also, logic would dictate that once the copyright was included it would not be subsequently removed. Very good with some foxing and tanning to outer edges of covers; interior clean and unmarked.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. One card leaf folded to make four pages. Fine in original envelope with some offsetting. Variant with printed copyright notice. A single poem issued by the publishers as a Christmas greeting. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Lovelorn Astronomer. G.K. Hall & Marquis Who's Who, Boston, 1978.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 pages. First edition, one of 400 copies published as a holiday greeting card. A single poem. Both issues with the copyright colophon on the last page printed & a copy with the colophon handwritten in ink. Included is the publisher's unused envelope. Both copies are fine. A beautiful set.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Lovelorn Astronomer 2 copies, 1 SIGNED. G.K. Hall & Co., 1978.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two copies of The Lovelorn Astronomer by John Updike. The first copy is Fine, and is SIGNED. The second copy is also Fine. Uncommon, especially signed.
Seller: D & L Fine Books, Richboro, PA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Lovelorn Astronomer. G.K. Hall and Marquis Who's Who, Inc., (Boston), 1978.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A poem by Updike, published as a holiday greeting card. Signed by the author. Fine, with original (unused) mailing envelope. Together with a presumed proof copy, with the copyright notice handwritten (in an unknown hand) rather than printed on the rear cover. Also fine. Both housed together in a G.K. Hall envelope. An ephemeral piece, uncommon signed, and rare in the variant with the handwritten copyright notice. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.