Updike, John. Couples (SIGNED). Knopf, New York, 1968.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st Edition/ 2nd Printing (March 1968). SIGNED and inscribed by Updike on front end page. Very slight slant and rubbed. Foxing on rear end page. DJ has shelf edge wear, small chips, spine bumped. $6.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Also includes laid-in original 2010 New York Times long article on Updike entitled: "Write, Rewrite, Tweak: A Record of John Updike at Work". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Couples. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1968.

Price: US$279.00 + 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. 458 pages. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY!

Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. Couples - SIGNED by the Author. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Price: US$290.65 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 458. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards, silver lettering to the spine and upper board, and in the original dust jacket, which has been neatly price clipped to the top corner of the front flap. Top edge stained blue. SIGNED by the author in blue to the front endpaper. A novel about ten promiscuous couples living in 1960's Massachusetts in the period described by one character as "the post-pill paradise"; it was rather controversial upon publication. Near Fine book in Near Fine jacket.

Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom

UPDIKE, John. Couples. Knopf, NY, 1968.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first of his novels to be both a critical and a substantial commercial success. Inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ with every good wish in her new environs/ John Updike." Foxing to cloth and edges of text block; mild splaying to boards; very good in a near fine dust jacket that is also foxed, mostly on verso. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. COUPLES. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Uncorrected Proof Copy in spiralbound blue wrappers. Octavo. Proof sheets printed on the rectos only. There is an Alfred A. Knopf label affixed to the front cover giving the proposed price ($6.95) and publication date (April 5, 1968). This copy has been inscribed by Updike on the title page to his bibliographer: "for Michael Broomfield / Best wishes, / John Updike." A very good or better copy. Please contact Clouds Hill Books for additional details and an illustrated catalogue of this item.

Seller: Clouds Hill Books, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.