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Updike, John (Richard Wagner). The Ring. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No markings. 'A vivid retelling fo the operas and the legend of the mighty hero Siegfried.'
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Ring : With Musical Themes by Richard Wagner. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No markings, tight, clean. Approximately 29 pages.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Ring (adaptation of Wagner's Ring). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No markings. 'A vivid retelling of the operas and the legend of the mighty hero Siegfried.' Approximately 29 pages.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Adapted from musical themes by Richard Wagner. Oblong quarto. Endpapers, text block edges and a few pages slightly foxed, front cover with uneven fading, about very good in an about very good dust jacket with modest foxing and several small creases and tears. A vivid retelling of the operas and the legend of the mighty hero Siegfried, the author's second scarcest children's book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wagner, Richard; Updike, John. The Ring. Alfred A Knopf, New York, NY, 1964.
Price: US$157.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: US VIN.CHILD-This oblong hard cover is very good+ with light tip wear, lacks the DJ. red w/brown lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illustrated with drawings by Warren Chappell. From the screenwriter David Lloyd (1934Ð2009) wrote television comedies for series such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier and Wings. Lloyd wrote "Chuckles Bites the Dust", an October 1975 episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and is regarded today as one of most famous television episodes of all time. In 2009, this episode was ranked No. 1 on TV Guide's "100 Greatest Episodes Of All Time". Scarce first edition of this imaginative version of theÊ"The Ring", theÊseries of four famous operas by Richard Wagner, with fantastic drawings by Warren Chappell, this is a compelling adaptation byÊJohn Updike (1932Ð2009), the famed American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic and one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Bound in the publisher's red cloth covered boards, with black titles.ÊContents clean and bright. Boards square and tight. Fine in a bright jacket with a very faint hint of wear.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John and Warren Chappell. The Ring. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, Gibraltar Library Binding issue, with "Gibraltar Library Binding" imprint on lower corner of rear cover. Tips of spine and corners are slightly rubbed, else a fine copy issued without dust jacket in this library issue.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$299.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A solid tight copy. An ex-library with some of the normal defects. Card pocket and light stamps to the front paste down and ffep, a stamp to the rear paste down. This copy has some rubbing wear, board edge wear, two light corner bumps, a smallish chip in the spine area. The Gibraltar edition (logo on back cover) in pictorial dark green boards with illustrated end papers.
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Gibraltar library binding, in pictorial boards. Signed by Updike to a laid-in decorative bookplate. The book is fine, but for just trace rubbing to the extremities. A very sharp collectible copy of a rather scarce early Updike work. "A vivid retelling of the operas and the legend of the mighty hero Siegried". 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.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Color Illustrations; First Edition, with no statement of printing on the copyright page. Dust jacket price of $3.50 on the front flap. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some very beginning rubbing to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. The white portions of the front cover have some beginning ground-in dirt. There are several tiny spots of rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket, especially the spine ends, and there is one spot of discoloration to the rear dust jacket panel. "Updike stayed at The New Yorker as a full staff writer for only two years, writing "Talk of the Town" columns and submitting poetry and short stories to the magazine. In New York, Updike wrote the poems and stories that came to fill his early books like The Carpentered Hen (1958) and The Same Door (1959). These works were influenced by Updike's early engagement with The New Yorker. This early work also featured the influence of J. D. Salinger ("A&P") ; John Cheever ("Snowing in Greenwich Village") ; and the Modernists Marcel Proust, Henry Green, James Joyce, and Vladimir Nabokov. " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Ring: With Musical Themes by Richard Wagner. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, library issue (also issued simultaneously in cloth with dust jacket). Oblong quarto. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Adapted from musical themes by Richard Wagner. Publisher's pictorial boards, without dustwrapper (as this variant was issued). A trifle rubbed, still easily fine. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A12b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John and Warren Chappell. The Ring. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, library binding issue. Music by Richard Wagner. Adapted and Illustrated by John Updike and Warren Chappell. Oblong quarto. Orange pictorial cloth printed in white, red and blue. Color illustrations. Binding is slightest bit soiled at tips of corners, else a very bright, fine copy, issued without dust jacket in this library binding. An uncommon title in this Knopf library binding issue.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Ring. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1964. Adaptation of Richard Wagner's The Ring by Updike and Warren Chappell. Chappell's color illustrations wonderfully accent Updike's retelling of the legend of Siegfried. This copy has been inscribed by Updike ' For Chuck Beauchea, With Warm Regards, John Updike. Bound in cloth library binding, with no dust jacket. as issued. A near fine copy with just a touch of wear at extremities.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Ring: With Musical Themes by Richard Wagner. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, library issue (also issued simultaneously in cloth with dust jacket). Oblong quarto. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Adapted from musical themes by Richard Wagner. Publisher's pictorial boards, without dustwrapper (as this variant was issued). A little rubbed on the rear board, else very near fine. Signed by John Updike. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A12b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Adapted from musical themes by Richard Wagner. Oblong quarto. Very slight sunning at the foot, else fine in pictorial cloth boards and very good plus dustwrapper with a few spots of foxing and a little rubbing. Signed by Updike and very scarce this. A nice copy of the author's second scarcest children's book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Adapted from musical themes by Richard Wagner. Oblong quarto. Fine in pictorial cloth boards and very near fine dustwrapper with a few spots of foxing and a little rubbing. Signed by Updike and very scarce this. A nice copy of the author's second scarcest children's book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.