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UPDIKE, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, 210pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp, unread copy in the publisher's slipcase, also fine. This is #91 of 350 limited specially bound first edition copies SIGNED by Updike on the limitation page.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
John Updike. Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Albert Raman, John Updike." Quarto (10.25" x 8.25"); [x], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; book in blindstamped navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some toning long top edges of flaps and a couple faint scratches to rear panel, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Just Looking. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Quarto. Fine in cloth and marbled papercovered boards in cloth slipcase. Copy 129 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. Essays on art.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Small quarto. Illustrated in color. Fine in cloth and marbled papercovered boards in fine cloth slipcase. Copy 272 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. Essays on art.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. A bit cocked thus very good in near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. [SIGNED] [LIMITED] JUST LOOKING. ESSAYS ON ART. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. Quarto; in quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, with titling in gilt to the spine; housed in the publisher's slipcase; the top edge of the slipcase is lightly sunned; this edition limited to 350 copies, signed by Mr. Updike on the limited leaf. Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed, Numbered]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 350 numbered copies, signed by Updike. Bound in marbled paper and black cloth and issued in a black cloth slipcase. Collects nearly two dozen illustrated essays on art. 210 pages. First edition. A fine copy in a fine slipcase; still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.164. Square quarto; 3/4 marbled paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's black cloth slipcase; 210,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine slipcase, without dustjacket, as issued. A handsome volume, collecting 23 of the author's essays on art, supplemented by 193 plates of illustrations throughout the text.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Just Looking. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by John Updike.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Printing. Signed. 210 pages. Published in 1989. The author's debut collection of essays on art. Limited Slipcased Edition of 350 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The Limited Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Alfred A. Knopf: Regular-sized volume format. Marbled hard boards with black linen cloth overboards and spine and gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by John Updike. Matching black linen cloth slipcase. Printed on glossy stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, John Updike's "Just Looking". His first - and best - book on art, a lifelong passion. "Free of abstraction and jargon and radiant in its curiosity and discernment, he can't help but bring a novelist's psychological insight to his discussion of art, even as he expertly considers technique and aesthetics. Updike is Receptivity Personified, writing about art with ardent attention, knowledge, and profound appreciation. Updike's immersion in art assures us that there are oases from the crassness of commercial images" (Donna Seaman). The title is almost self-consciously modest: Updike was not just looking; he was looking more keenly than most art "experts" and scholars. Written in Updike's characteristic lapidary style: Chiseled, polished, impeccable. There is such a thing as a John Updike line or sentence in the sense that there isn't in any other living American writer today. Susan Sontag regarded him as the finest stylist in the English language of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for John Updike collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in blue ink-pen by John Updike. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. A writer all his adult life, John Updike was probably the most-honored American writer of our time: Winner of numerous awards, among them the Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1959), National Book Award for Fiction (1964), O. Henry Prize (1967-68), American Book Award (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1982, 1990), Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award (1982), National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1984), and the National Medal of the Arts (1989), the highest award the U. S. Government bestows on its artists and writers. In 1976, he became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003, Updike received the National Medal for Humanities, joining a very small group of great living Americans who have been honored with both the National Medal of the Arts and the National Medal for the Humanities. Updike's greatest novels, "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit At Rest", won Pulitzer Prizes. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN UPDIKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0394579046.
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 210 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. 23 illustrated essays about art. His 34th book. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Updike, John (SIGNED). Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York, 1989.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: " Updike guides us through a gallery of twenty-three richly illustrated essays." 200 pp. plus: Credits, Index. Book has black cloth covered boards with gilt text on spine, blind stamped title on front. Book has red stamp, " Free Review Copy Not For Resale" on title page. Book was closed before stamp was dry and shadow of stamp is verso ffep, OW book is as new! Price clipped DJ has light shelf wear and a small scuff at rear tail on spine. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet and often-times host at Harbourfront literary events, Greg Gatenby. His signature and the date of the book's acquisition are found top ffep. Dedication/association copy: " for Greg Gatenby cheers, John Updike 12/2/ 96 ". SIGNED by AUTHOR. Random House (distributor in Canada) reviewer's card laid in. Bookseller's Inventory # 122987.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
John Updike. Just Looking: Essays on Art (SIGNED). Knopf, 1989.
Price: US$269.95 + shipping
Description: Knopf. Used; Like New. Knopf 1989 Hardcover. SIGNED by author. Fine in a Fine slipcase, it is still in original shrinkwrap. Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition: Fine . 1989. SLIPCASED.
Seller: Fleur Fine Books, Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Just Looking: Essays on Art. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "for dear old Herb, Merry Christmas! John." Updike has added a little sketch of holly leaves and berries. 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, JOHN. Just Looking. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$282.60 + shipping
Description: One of 350 specially bound copies numbered & signed by the author. Marbled boards. Inserted into cloth covered slipcase w/ the author's name blindstamped to sides. Very Fine.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Updike, John. Just Looking. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
Price: US$295.00 + 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. 212 pages. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.