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Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Updike on one of the front free endpapers. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally toned. Yellow cloth, heavily foxed, with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a brown top stain, clean internally. A collection of Updike's nonfiction prose written the previous decade, with topics including Ted Williams, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Muriel Spark, Max Beerbohm, among others.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Signed on tipped in page by author John Updike. First Edition. Good in Very Good- unclipped dust jacket; light edge wear to dj. Used, light foxing to boards, spine ends softened, foxing to textblock edge, with NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. OF THE FARM [INSCRIBED]. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York, 1965.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo, 173 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild age toning with foxing to flap edges and price clipped front flap. Spine pictorial green with black lettering. Boards have mild age toning toward the edges. Text block has red colored head edge with slight foxing to the fore and tail edges. Gift inscription to the front free end paper. First Edition. Signed by the author to white paper tipped in to the title page. 1371493. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mild wear, else a clean copy of the First Edition. SIGNED by Updike on a special tipped-in page! In two price clipped jackets, one Fine, the other Very Good. ; 8.2 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 326 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Original price of $3.95 printed on the front flap of dust jacket. Dust jacket has negligible wear at corners and top and bottom spine. Very nice copy.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a modest chip. Signed by the author. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a modest chip. Inscribed by the author. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1965. Bound in publisher's light yellow cloth. With review photo of Updike from the rear flap by Irving Fisk laid in. A fine example of the book. The dust jacket (price clipped) is near fine with toning to the spine and a small chip to the top of the spine. This copy has been inscribed by John Updike.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Of the Farm. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine (light fading and light wear to edges of boards and light bumping to extremities) in very good dust jacket showing 1.5" closed, clear tape repaired tear to top edge, fading to spine and edges on inside only, some wear to edges and corners.) Inscribed by author to former owner on front fly page. Name of former owner with "Christmas--1965" written to second front fly page.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a modest chip. Signed by the author. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Bookplate, else fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$147.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First editon stated. Signed by author on tipped in leaf prior to half-title. Unmarked, tight and square. Faint shelf wear at base of spine. Price intact jacket lighted toned at lightly tanned area of spine and top of front flap. Nice copy. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small stain on front board thus near fine in slightly spine-toned, very near fine dustwrapper. Signed by Updike on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John.. Assorted Prose.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York., 1965.
Price: US$163.56 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [xiv], 327. Ten years of non-fiction prose.Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf before the half-title page.Fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
UPDIKE, John. Assorted Prose. Knopf, NY, 1965.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: His first collection of nonfiction, short pieces from The New Yorker and a number of other publications, collected the year after Updike won the National Book Award and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ Best wishes to a former Beverlyite/ John Updike." Foxing to foredge and cloth, thus very good in a very good dust jacket, which is also foxed, predominantly on verso. Most of the signed copies of this title that show up have been signed on a tipped-in leaf. Inscribed copies are uncommon. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper just a trifle toned on the spine. Signed by Updike on a cancel leaf. *De Bellis and Broomfield* A16.b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar (signed). Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ptg., large 8vo, full red cloth, with Nancy Eckholm Burkert's haunting pencil sketches in red and black. Inscribed to Andrew Simon by Updike on the half-title, with gift inscription above in a different hand. Interestingly, the authorial inscription was started on the back free endpaper before being restarted and finished in the front. Fine in edgeworn, unclipped dj with short closed tear to front cover.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition so stated, 8vo (8¼ x 5¼), pp. (8), (1-2), 3-173, (5), inscribed & signed for Roper/ John Updike on the front free endpaper. Original silver lettered green cloth backed light green boards in original color pictorial dust jacket. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some very light wear at end caps & corners of the jacket. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H7770
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thin 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. N.Y:Knopf, 1965. First Edition. Fine. Fine, autographed copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$216.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by the author on a tipped in leaf for members of the First Edition Circle, with Kroch's & Brentano's bookmark laid in. Dust jacket very slightly chipped at the edges.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar (Signed First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. Scarce library binding, in laminated pictorial boards. Signed by the author to a laid-in decorative bookplate. The book is near fine, with only light shelf/edge-wear and very minor soiling. A very sharp collectible copy, quite scarce in this issue/condition and with a signature. Please be sure to check out the other John Updike titles in our inventory. We ship all of our books bubble-wrapped in sturdy, very well-padded boxes, so they are guaranteed to arrive in the exact same condition as when they left. Please feel free to email with any questions/offers/trades and thank you for supporting small independent booksellers everywhere.
Seller: Dexter's Book Cellar, Stratford, CT, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1965. Bound in publisher's lemon yellow cloth. This copy has been inscribed by John Updike; ' For John Gardner, Best Wishes, John Updike. ' Both the book and the dust jacket are fine. An uncommonly nice copy which almost always appears with some toning to the tan panels of the jacket and/or chips to the black spine.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 174 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Ilonka Karasz. His 9th adult book and his 4th novel. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contains the short story (published separately in a signed, limited edition, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" about Ted Williams; chipping to top and bottom of dj spine and top fron cover; dj shows light soiling but still attractive and not price clipped ($5.95) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. A lovely copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, JOHN. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$302.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st ed. VG+ in VG+ price clipped, dust soiled DJ with very shallow chipping to head and heel of spine. Signed by author on prelim.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 327 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. His 8th book and 1st book of non-fiction. Most of these articles were written for the New Yorker. Signed by Updike for Kroch & Brentano Booksellers on a tipped in page with their First Edition Circle card laid in. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. Assorted Prose.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine, clean copy in yellow cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. SIGNED by Updike on a tipped-in leaf before the half title page. 327pp. Consisting of non-fiction pieces, most of which were written during Updike's brief tenure at The New Yorker; by the time this was published, he had already published two collections of light verse, two novels and two books of short stories. Includes the famous tribute to Ted Williams's last game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" published in the October 22, 1960 issue of The New Yorker. Q06909
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$329.00 + 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. 327 pages. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A nice first edition/first printing in Very Near Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author John Updike on a free front end page. De Bellis/Broomfield A16a; Updike's Assorted Prose includes his early essays of humor and parody, some reportage for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town, " his description of Ted Williams' last appearance in Fenway Park, several semi-autobiographical first person accounts, and numerous book reviews; 8vo; [4], xii, [2], 326, [8] pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$344.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Seven volumes: Assorted Prose (1965), Pick-Up Pieces (1976), Hugging the Shore (1983), Just Looking - Essays on Art (1989), Odd Jobs (1991, signed by the author), More Matter (1999) and Due Considerations (2007). John Updike's collected non-fiction: essays, criticism, reviews, articles, parodies, speeches, travel pieces, obituaries, interviews, prefaces, notes, introductions, letters to and from, memoirs and profiles - 763 pieces, 2,000+pp; 20th century literature, art, obsessions and moments, all covered, along with many nods back to the artists and authors of earlier centuries. The image from the rear panel of Hugging the Shore, adjacent, gives some idea of the author's net. All very good or better in dustwrappers. The seven volumes
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Updike, John. Of The Farm. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$359.00 + 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. 174 pages. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
John Updike. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1965.
Price: US$374.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A square solid tight clean carefully used copy. The PC jacket has some rubbing wear, edge wear, lightish chipping at the top and heel of the spine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. This copy has been signed John Updike on the title page.
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition of John Updike's third book for children, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1965. Trade edition, bound in publisher's red cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Updike provides a poem for each month, illustrated, in turn, by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. A fine example of the book. The dust jacket is near fine with just the slightest trace of wear at extremities. This copy has been inscribed on the title page by John Updike.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. throughout. Just a hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Bookplate signed by Updike laid in. Collection of twelve poems for children, each about a month of the year, accompanied by Burkert's attractive illustrations.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Top corners very slightly bumped, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in, the slip is a bit soiled. One of an unknown number of copies Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. A very nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Assorted Prose. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed issue (issued for distribution by Kroch and Brenato's for members of their 'First Edition Circle'); issued with an extra tipped-in leaf, signed by John Updike. xiii, 327 pp. 8vo. Laid into the book is a card from Kroch's and Brentano's stating that the book is "A first edition, autographed by the author especially for the members of The First Edition Circle." Roberts A11a A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; jacket has two short tears and two small soil spots on front panel, else quite bright First edition, signed issue (issued for distribution by Kroch and Brenato's for members of their 'First Edition Circle'); issued with an extra tipped-in leaf, signed by John Updike.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 32 pages. First edition, first printing with 1965 on copyright page & no other printings noted. Illustrated by Nancy Eckholm Burkert. Signed by Updike & Burkert on the half title page. His 3rd book for children. A collection of 12 poems, one for each month of the year with Burkert's corresponding illustration. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with very slight rubbing to the top & bottom of the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.