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Updike, John. More Matter : Essays and Criticism. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed 'John Updike,' on the front free endpaper. Stated First Edition. No markings.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. More Matters Essays and Criticism. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has one slightly bumped corner. Dj is fine. Signed by Updike on the front fep.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
John Updike. More Matter: Essays and Criticism. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, 1999.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine copy of this massive (897 pp) collection of Updike's non-fiction work from the 90's Both book and DJ are in excellent condition, with DJ in protective mylar cover Author signed on bookplate on front fly leaf.
Seller: Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. More Matter Essays and Criticism. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 900p octavo, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket signed by Updike on the title page
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. More Matter, Essays and Criticism. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus, first edition book in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. Gold cloth covered boards with silver gilt lettering and graphics on front panel, silver and gold gilt lettering and silver gilt graphics on spine. Upper external page edges are pink-tinted. The lower 1/2" of the front board panel, tail of spine and the right half of the back board panel is lightly sunned; and corners at tail of board spine and upper right edge at head of spine are bumped, else book would be fine. Internally clean and snug. No remainder marks, not price clipped. 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.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). $35.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st Printing hardcover copy of Updike's "John Updike on Ted Williams"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. More Matter: Essays & Criticism. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Updike's 50th book and 5th collection of assorted prose. Inscribed to Albert J Raman on the front free endpaper; "For Albert J Raman Best Wishes John Updike". Raman was a noted bibliophile and an avid Updike collector. Book is in fine condition with no visible defects, fine dust jacket, unclipped now with archival protection. Collectable copy ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 897 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
John Updike. More Matter. Essays and Criticism. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First edition. Xxiii,900pp. INSCRIBED ON THE FFEP TO THE OWNERS BY JOHN UPDIKE WITH "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Essays on Edith Wharton, the Song of Solomon, Religion and Literature, "The Twelve Terrors of Christmas," Herman Melville, The Paris Review, Mickey Mouse, Al Capp, Cheever, movies, art, personal memoir, and much more. 175 prose pieces in 900 pages. As new/ as new.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. More Matter: Essays and Criticism. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "for Herb Yellin, once again, upward and onward. Cheers, John." 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. More Matter: Essays and Criticism.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with 46 illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and golfing partner in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Vermilze matters to be consumed in small tasty bites Merry Christmas John Updike 12/25/99." Updike has also drawn a nice drawing of Santa Claus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Carroll. Jacket photograph by Steve Buhman. John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and -- in a concluding section, "Personal Matters" -- paragraphs on himself and his work. More matter, indeed, in an age which, his introduction states, wants "real stuff -- the dirt, the nitty gritty -- and not . . . the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.