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Updike, John,. The Same Door. Short Stories.. New York, Knopf., 1959.
Price: US$22.05 + shipping
Description: (10), 241, (5) S., OHlwd. (stw. etw. verblaßt). Sonst gutes Exemplar der zweiten Publikation von Updike, mit beilieg. illustr. Waschzettel. EA.
Seller: ANTIQUARIAT MATTHIAS LOIDL, Unterreit-Stadl, Germany
John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing, in the same format and quality and issued a few months after the first. What distinguishes this copy is the fine state of the original dust jacket, which retains its original price and comes in an archival Mylar cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION in blue cloth 1/8 bound over light chocolate boards; classic Updike dust jacket in stripes; stated first edition; 242pp. Very Good with owner signature on flyleaf; in Fair dust jacket, which is in mylar protection and price-clipped. Updike's third books - an early collection of short stories. Hard-to-find in dust jacket.
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. The same Door. Short Stories.. New York Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$33.07 + shipping
Description: 241 pp. Original half cloth without jacket. First Edition. - Cover with some light sunning. Gewicht (Gramm): 358
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Updike, John. THE SAME DOOR SHORT STORIES. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 241 pages, blue cloth spine with brown paper covered boards, silver printing. The spine is slightly sunned and the cover edges show some discoloration. Otherwise this is a clean, nice copy. About Very Good.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door; Short Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A clean and bright copy of the First Edition in a Very Good jacket with a 1" x 3" chip from the rear panel, other age wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door: Short Stories. New York: Knopf, 1959., 1959.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition stated. Small 8vo. 241 pp, publishers turquoise cloth-backed brown paper boards lettered in silver, blind-stamped publishers logo to rear cover (some wear at edges, very good or better), dust jacket (chipping at crown of spine with moderate loss, soiling, edgewear, good or better), in acetate wrapper.
Seller: Free Play Books, NEW HAVEN, CT, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door: Short Stories. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Knopf,1959. First Edition. The first issue dust wrapper is price clipped , with the top edge lightly chipped & torn at one fold.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. THE SAME DOOR, SHORT STORIES. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY., 1959.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition bound in teal cloth spine and brown boards with silver lettering. Rubbing along edges and discoloration to both spine ends. Hint of sunning along upper edges - previous owner inscription. Contents bright and fresh - price clipped edgeworn chipped dust jacket, tape repaired internally and dampstained at lower spine area which caused the discoloration to the cloth. - From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature!
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. THE SAME DOOR. Short Stories.. Knopf., New York, 1959.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Knopf, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Bookplate under the front jacket flap. The book is fine; the jacket has a little edge wear, a small closed tear, and a tiny piece missing from the spine.
Seller: Chloe's Books, Loomis, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door Short Stories. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Book has one slightly bumped edge. Dj has edgewear, wear to cover. Authors third book.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, JOHN. The Same Door: Short Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Slight fading on the board edges else near fine in a very good dust jacket with internal tape shadows, toning, and slight edgewear.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Updike's scarce third book, and first book of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition of this uncommon early work by Updike. 241 pp. Book is in lovely fine condition in a handsome very good plus dustwrapper with a short closed tear near the base of the rear panel. A nicer than usual copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$198.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter bound in turquoise cloth over brown boards very clean and sharp except for small spots beneath center on front panel. First edition stated on copyright page. Textblock tight, square and clean. First issue jacket with reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on rear panel. Jacket has price intact ($3.75) has moderate edgewear at head of spine with some crimping and minor crease on rear panel. The blue background behind title on spine appears sunned as it is lighter that same background on front panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition ( stated ) published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1959. Bound in publisher's blue cloth and dark gray boards. Updike's third book and first collection of stories ( following the poetry collection The Carpentered Hen and the novel The Poorhouse Fair. ) A fine example of the book. Dust jacket very good with some wear evident to edges - slightly more pronounced to head of spine. Corners of flaps clipped, but price ( $3.75 ) remains. Light stain to upper corner of rear panel, no effect to book.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door, Short Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus, first edition book in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Dark tan paper covered boards with turquoise cloth on spine. Silver lettering and graphics on front panel; gilt and silver lettering and silver graphics on spine. Publisher's logo blind-stamped on back panel. Upper external page edges are yellow-green tinted. Faint sunning around extremities, more so along edges at head and tail of board spine and especially the front corner at tail of spine. Several small irregular stains on external side edges. Very small bumps on lower fore-edge corner tips. Several very minimal bumps along lower edge of front board panel. Front free end-paper has faint rough paper residue, apparently from something previously pasted on and removed. Text pages are lightly age-toned else internally clean. Dust jacket is lightly soiled overall, more obvious against light background of back panel. All folds are creased, scuffed and sunned. Upper edge at head of jacket spine has loss of 7/8" by up to 1/4" across most of the width, and with adjacent tiny tears and chips; front corner at head of jacket spine has a 3/8" closed vertical tear with several adjacent diagonal creases to the upper edge of front panel. Irregular loss of 1/2" by up to 1/4" on front corner at tail of spine, and with adjacent rubs on the edges. Back corner at tail of spine has loss of less than 1/8" but has adjacent creases and tiny tears. Upper edge of back panel has a 3/16" closed vertical tear toward the right corner and with adjacent diagonal creases. All fore-edge corners are rubbed with losses of less than 1/4". Upper corner of inside front flap has large price clip of 3 1/8" by 2 3/8". Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Updike's third book, 1st collection of short fiction. A handsome copy, about fine in brown boards with a teal colored spine; the nearly fine dw is very lightly soiled on the rear panel, with a very slight vertical crease and a touch of wear atop the spine.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small stain on top edge, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the spine ends. A handsome copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Sunning and a bit of smudging and small stains on the front panel, else near very good lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by Updike. Updike's scarce third book, and first book of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. SAME DOOR. Short Stories. , 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: UPDIKE, John. THE SAME DOOR. Short Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. 8vo., turquoise cloth-backed brown paper-covered boards. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a few short edge tears, no fading. A very nice copy.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair [Inscribed]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); blue-gray paper-covered boards and burnt orange cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [vi],185,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For Jack Grogins / Best wishes / John Updike." Light wear to extremities, topstain dust-soiled and a little dulled, with a hint of dustiness to text edges; Near Fine. In the first state dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), with modest wear to extremities, a few scuffs to spine panel, a few shallow losses, four tape-mended tears on verso, with scattered foxing to same; Very Good. Updike's first novel.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears and a crease on the front panel. A handsome copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. The Same Door. Short Stories.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Minor fade to extremities of boards, jacket mildly edgeworn with one small chip to lower front spinefold. SIGNED custom bookplate (with title typed on a typewriter), laid in. 242pp. Updike's third book, and first published book of stories. Q04837
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$243.72 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A great first edition of John Updike"s first short story collection, a collection of stories that had originally been published in "The New Yorker". The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper."The Same Door" is a collection of sixteen short stories, all of which had been previously published in "The New Yorker" between 1954 and 1959.Written by John Updike, a noted American author, who is one of four authors who have won the Pultizer Prize for Fiction more than once. He is best known for his "Rabbit" series. In the original publisher"s quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally near fine, with a few light marks and a small amount of bumping to the extremities. Dsuwtrapper with edgewear and some marks, including a small tidemark to the reverse of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a couple of very light handling marks. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
UPDIKE, John. SAME DOOR. Short Stories. , 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: UPDIKE, John. THE SAME DOOR. Short Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. Bookplate of the Philips Exeter Academy, noting that the volume was presented to them by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. (Cancellation stamp to bookplate). 8vo., turquoise cloth-backed brown paper-covered boards. Sun to top edge with a variable depth of 1/4 to 1" of the board affected; Internally, bright and clean. A very good, tight copy overall, in spine-sunned dust jacket with light general edgewear, a small chip to the rear panel and a larger chip to the front panel, which also bears a hint of soil.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door [FIRST EDITION]. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Blue quarter cloth over brown boards. Dust jacket. 241 pp. Jacket has minor wear to edges, some scuffing at header and footer of spine. 1/4" closed tear at upper left of rear jacket cover. Book is fine. This is a scarce first edition of Updike's third book, his first collection of stories.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door: Short Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Updike, John., Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, c1959, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), vg+ with vg- dj (light wear, slightly chipped, a few tears, in brand-new mylar), 242 pp, 8vo, Reviews for 'The Poorhouse Fair' on the rear dj panel, and original $3.75 price intact on the front flap. 'There is a superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door; thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story of this collection, is the narrator of the last', author's third book, quite scarce.
Seller: Gene Sperry Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Slightest sunning to the edges of the boards, still fine in an attractive, very good first issue dustwrapper with some small nicks and tears, and faint stains on the rear panel. Updike's scarce third book, and first book of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$379.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. FIRST STATE DUSTJACKET. Author's third book. 242 pages. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in attractive very good or better dust jacket with two neat and unnecessary internal brown paper tape repairs. Updike's scarce third book, and first book of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. The Same Door.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: 242 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition. Tiny date stamp to front free endpaper; a few spots to fore-edge; else a nice copy with a little sunning to the edges of the boards. The jacket is unchipped, with some rubbing and some fading to the spine. Signed by Updike on the title page.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state dust jacket. Signed by John Updike on the title page. x, 242, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards, lettered in silver and gold. Near Fine with a little toning at spine ends, shelf wear, in Near Fine dust jacket with a chip at the top of the back panel, rubbing there as well. The author's third book, a collection of short stories.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door (Signed First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. Signed by the author to a laid-in decorative bookplate. The book is near fine, with just the slightest start of foxing to the initial pages, and very minor pushing at the extremities. Binding square and tight. The price-clipped first-state dust jacket -- now protected by a removable Brodart archival cover -- is very good+, with only light rubbing/edgewear, causing a few small edge tears (professionally repaired). Clean and bright, a sharp collectible copy of a scarce early Updike work. 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.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in non price clipped dj ($3.75); dj has slight chips to top of spine and closed tear/crease to top of front panel; however attractive and bright Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$574.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition (so stated) of the author's first collection of storiesâ"sixteen in numberâ"published one year after his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair. 8vo: [10],242,[4]. Publisher's turquoise quarter-bound cloth, chestnut-brown paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover stamped in silver, top edge stained lime-green; first issue dust jacket, priced $3.75, with reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on back panel. Laid in is Knopf's date-of-publication notice. An exemplary example, virtually pristine, square, tight and unread, silver lettering and top stain undiminished, pages fresh and bright. These stories appeared originally in the New Yorker in the order in which they appear here. "Ace in the Hole" prefigures Rabbit, Run in having an ex-high school basketball star now married with a child. "Snowing in Greenwich Village" is the first story to feature the Maples, Joan and Richard, whose stories were later collected in Too Far to Go. "Stylistically, [Updike's] early stories were directly influenced by the New Yorker itself, where they primarily appeared. The two writers most associated with the magazine at this time, J. D. Salinger and John Cheever, exerted particular influence on Updike's style and approach. . . . [S]uch early pieces of marital life as "Snowing in Greenwich Village" evoke Cheever's elegant tales of spousal tension and middle-class comfort. At the same time, Updike was every bit his own writer, even early on, looking for deeper inspiration not in his contemporaries but rather in the European Modernists who immediately preceded him, chiefly James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Henry Green and Vladimir Nabokov. Specifically, Updike's lyrical, baroque prose style, as well as his penchant for complex formal design, can be traced directly back to those Modernist masters, all of whom get name-checked in one way or another in the early work." (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. The Same Door.. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$580.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, signed by the author on title-page; 8vo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, slightly sunned at extremities, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed and creased at top-edge with chip near head of spine but overall a very good example. The third published book by John Updike, comprising sixteen short stories. Uncommon signed.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in very good or better first issue dustwrapper with rubbing and small nicks at the crown. Inscribed by Updike: "for Herb Yellin who is slowly driving me crazy. John Updike." Herb Yellin was the founder and publisher of Lord John Press and the most frequent of Updike's fine press collaborators. He named his press after noting that the list of authors he wanted to publish all shared the same first name, chief among them John Updike, his favorite. *Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu* became the press's first book in 1977 with 10 more to follow over the next 23 years. Yellin's friendship with Updike grew with each new limited edition benefitting his already enormous Updike collection, with Updike himself contributing copies of new editions of his books - often inscribed. In a 2010 interview with Yellin he noted that Updike ".liked that if anything ever happened to his own collection, he had my collection on the opposite side of the country." A notable association. Updike's scarce third book, and first book of short stories. A very nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. The Same Door.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 242 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition. Slightly bumped at bottom of spine and one corner, else about fine; in a jacket with a small very light tidemark to corner of front flap. The jacket is otherwise fresh, bright, and unchipped. Not at all common in this condition.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1959.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 242 pages. First edition, first issue dust jacket with the price of $3.75 and reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on back panel. His third book & first book of short stories. 16 short stories. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a small amount of creasing to the top of the back cover. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. "Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Library Copy" label on front pastedown fine in near fine first issue dustwrapper with a not very noticable creased tear on the front panel and rubbing and tiny nicks at the crown. Updike's scarce third book, and first book of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.