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John Updike. Museums & Women and other stories (Signed by Author). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Pickwick Bookshop, Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
John Updike. Museums and Women (Signed Limited Ed.). Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972. A fine, collectible signed limited trade first edition copy of this short story collection by this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author. Edition, First Printing as indicated by "First Edition" printed on copyright page. A fine, signed limited hardcover copy, gray-green cloth covered boards with sharp corners, maroon covered spine with gold lettering. Book is solid, spine is tight. Not ex-library, no previous owner markings, book plates, or remainder marks. Looks unread. Author signature only on limitations page in black ink. This is copy #320 of 350 total copies. Bright, fine unclipped dust jacket with no price, as issued. Included is publisher?s decorative slipcase in near fine condition. Shipped in well-padded box.
Seller: Brothers' Fine and Collectible Books, IOBA, Humble, TX, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Museums and Women, and Other Stories. Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1972.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1972. Signed by Updike on title page; stated first edition; dust jacket lightly soiled/rubbed, spine lightly sunned, corners lightly rubbed, protected in brodart; cover lightly rubbed, corners lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly bumped; edges lightly soiled; ffep has faint erasures and gold sticker; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
John Updike. Museums and Women and Other Stories. Knopf, 1972.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The signed limited edition in the publisher's slipcase, this being $192 of 350 copies, signed by Updike on the limitation page. The book and slipcase are as new. The jacket was placed on the book off-center in production, and has two very small chips.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Museums and women, and other stories. Knopf, 1972.
Price: US$93.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: No. 22/350 signed limited edition copy. Like new green boards with gilt lettering along red spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for John Updike's signature and No. 22 on special edition page. VG dust jacket not price clipped; smooth edges; light age toning on spine; MYLAR covered. 282pp. First Edition. Includes slipcase in very good condition with faint age toning. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles, Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.
Updike, John. MUSEUMS AND WOMEN. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 282pp. Limited Edition, #13 of 350 copies, SIGNED BY UPDIKE. Dustjacket spine is lightly darkened, and has small edge chip to top. In original slipcase which is faded around front edge.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
John Updike. MUSEUMS AND WOMEN [Signed Limited Edition]. Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y., 1972.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A very fine copy in a very fine jacket and slipcase in like new and unread condition. Signed Limited Edition, no 111 of 350 copies. No bumped corners to book or box. No tears, no chips to jacket.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Museums and Women and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Faint mildew stain on cloth board corners, still a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with spine toned, housed in near fine age-toned slipcase with faint water wrinkle. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Museums and Women. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1972.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited slip-cased edition, 1 of 350 signed and numbered copies; this being the number 26. Signed by John Updike on the limitation page. The book, dust jacket, and slipcase are in fine condition, with some tanning to spine and slightly to cover margins.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Museums & Women. Alfred A.Knopf, New York:, 1972.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: mint-green cloth; author's name on front in silver, lettering on spine in silver & gilt; top edge mauve; 282 pgs, 29 stories; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $6.95 on front flap, author photo by Joyce Dopkeen on rear. quotes by Richard Watts, Jr., Granville Hicks, Charles T.Samuels & Joyce Carol Oates on back cover. jacket photo by John Updike. fine copy in near fine dust jacket: only very slight fade to dj spine & crease to front flap, else a very attractive copy.
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Nearly Fine first Printing of the First Edition that has some discoloration to the edges and soiling to the front pastedown in a mildly soiled Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author John Updike on the front flyleaf; Early and comprehensive collection of short stories, essays, and vignettes. Updike tries on ten surreal modes and ornaments his texts with an array of stolen illustrations. Lastly, five stories portray the evolving, everlasting marriage of the Maples, an imaginary couple first appearing in the 1956 New Yorker. (from the dust-jacket) ; 8vo; 282 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. Museums and Women and other Stories.. New York Knopf, 1972.
Price: US$166.35 + shipping
Description: 282 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket and slip case. First Edition. - One of 350 copies printed on special paper and specially bound, signed by the author and numbered. - Fine copy. Slip case faded. Gewicht (Gramm): 688
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
UPDIKE, John. Museums and Women and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper in fine slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Museums and Women and Other Stories [Signed]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$187.14 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (number 119 of 350 copies). SIGNED in full by author John Updike in black ink on limitation page, as called for. From limitation page: "Of the first edition of Museums and Women and Other Stories three hundred & fifty copies have been printed on special paper & specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author & numbered". Printed in the USA. Bound in original green thick-woven cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering to both boards, backed by maroon cloth spine with bright gilt lettering, in unclipped pictorial dustjacket, housed in publisher's original green paper-covered illustrated slipcase. Top edge of book block stained red, as issued. Green endpapers. Book: FINE/Dustjacket: FINE/Slipcase: FINE. A very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. Gift quality. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear Bro-dart cover. 282pp. Scarce signed limited edition. RARE.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
UPDIKE, John.. Museums and Women and other stories.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York., 1972.
Price: US$193.83 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp x, 282. Twenty-nine stories. Number 76 of 350 copies signed by the author, printed on special paper and specially bound.Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine pictorial card slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
UPDIKE, John. Museums and Women and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper in slightly sunned, near fine slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Museums and Women and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper in fine slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Museums & Women And Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 282 pages. First edition, first printing. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. His 16th book & fifth book of short stories. As new book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Museums & Women and Other Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with nearly imperceptible fading at the spine. Inscribed by the author: "for Susan Sheehan, best wishes, John Updike." Updike and Sheehan were colleagues at *The New Yorker* for nearly 50 years, both, among other things, contributing frequently to *The Talk of the Town*. Both won Pulitzer Prizes: Updike for *Rabbit is Rich* and *Rabbit at Rest*; Sheehan for General Non-Fiction for her 1983 book *Is There No Place on Earth for Me?* A lovely copy and a nice association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.