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UPDIKE, John. Marry Me. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1976.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Barbara Cox. Full leather gilt. Fine. One of an unspecified number of copies printed for the First Edition Society Signed by the author with a special message not included in the trade edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Marry me: a romance. Franklin Library, 1976.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Franklin Library; Franklin Center, 1976. Deluxe Leather Collector Edition. First Edition. Signed by author directly on prelim. A Very Good copy. Gilt embossed full leather binding is very nice with sharp corners, AEG fresh and bright with mild blemishes. Bound in Fine Genuine Leather - 22kt gold-stamped spine accents - Distinctive raised spine hubs, - Intricate gilt stamped cover designs, - Specially milled acid-neutral paper, - Smyth-sewn pages, - Gilded page edges, - Permanent satin ribbon page-marker. Silk moire coloured endpapers. Binding firm, book unopened and unread, mild rubbing along board edges. 347pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Marry Me. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1976.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Full leather gilt. Fine. One of an unspecified number of copies printed for the First Edition Society Signed by the author with a special message not included in the trade edition. Additionally laid in is a pamphlet entitled "Notes from the Editors."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. Marry Me (inscribed first edition, full leather). Franklin Library, 1976.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, inscribed by Updike on free endpapers. Full leather, gold stamping, all edges gilt with moire silk endpapers. A fine copy. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #156
Seller: Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Marry Me: A Romance. , 1976.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1976 First Edition Hardcover Fine/No Dust Jacket Signed by Author Illustrated by Barbara Fox; Franklin Center, PA, 1976, 1st edition, The Franklin Library, The First Edition Society, bound in full leather, SIGNED by the AUTHOR; very fine condition, John Updike, Fine Bindings, Modern First Editions
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Marry Me: A Romance [Numbered edition]. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: 303 pages. One of 350 numbered copies bound with pages from the first trade edition. The first edition was published the same year by Franklin Library. First edition (first printing). Red cloth over blue boards and illustrated endpapers. Top edge stained blue. A fine, unread copy in a dust jacket with a touch of edge wear and light fading to the spine. In the illustrated slipcase with light fading to the edges.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of "the gentlest book Updike has written" (Kirkus Reviews), privately printed exclusively for Members of the First Edition Society. Octavo, original publisher's full leather elaborately stamped in gilt, moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the limitation page, "For Erica + Ken warm regards, John." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movementâs redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: âAt the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexualâ"and brought all those things together⦠What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.â The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In fine condition. "This understatement, this unwavering vision fixed on only four characters, is a part of what makes the story so effective. Updike's best fiction has always been his most narrowly focused; in this novel the plot is directâ"complex without becoming complicated by symbols thrashing obtrusively just behind the canvasâ"and refreshingly free from the portentousness that has marred several of his most ambitious novels. 'Marry Me' is the best written and least self-conscious of Updike's longer fiction; it contains his most sophisticated and sympathetic portraits of women. It is quite simply, Updike's best novel yet. I can't believe that anyone married or divorced could read it without being moved" (Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek),
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Marry Me: A Romance. Franklin Library, Franklin Station, 1976.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in full leather with gilt. One of an unspecified number of copies of a limited edition of the first edition, with a special message to subscribers from Updike that does not appear in the trade edition. Although not issued Signed this copy is Inscribed: "For Herb Yellin in person nice to meet you. 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 and an interesting, marking what would be the beginning of a very long collaboration and friendship.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1976 LTD EDITION SIGNED on a bookplate and sealed in book by the author JOHN UPDIKE - LIKE NEW - TIGHT BINDING - Green leather with gold accents on the cover/spine and page edging, includes an attached satin bookmark ribbon - includes "notes from the editors" - As New
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. MARRY ME. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, 1976.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. "Special Message" by Updike for this edition. Illustrated by Barbara Fox. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards, all edges gilt, satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Inscribed by Updike on the front free endpage. "for John Hawkins my esteemed 'other' editor - with gratitude and warm regards John Updike." Hawkins was Updike's editor for his Franklin Library publications. Marrry Me was their first collaboration. Also includes the publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet illustrated by David Blossom. The booklet has faint beginning edge toning; the book has a spot of wear on the foreedge gilt and minimal shelfwear (not immediately apparent); it is an unread copy in Near Fine condition.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.