Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Edited by John Updike. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a slight "peak" on the spine. Signed by Updike.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed by Updike on the title page. Slight page edge soil, but tight and straight.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Introduction by John Updike. Thick, heavy 8vo. xxiv, 776 pp. Original binding. SIGNED by Lorrie Moore, E. Annie Proulx and Ann Beatie at their contributions. This is a fine book in a bright, fine DJ. Uncommon signed.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Katrina Kenison. The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy in like jacket.Numberline Starting with 2.Signed by Tim O'Brien,Joyce Carol Oates and E. Annie Proulx. Excellent Fresh Beautiful Copy. $28.00 on flap. Large Volume.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$127.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Updike on the title page. Slight creasing to the dust jacket flaps, and a mild pull to the head of the spine. The only author to be included in Best American Short Stories in every decade since the 1950s, John Updike was chosen to select those stories best representing the American century since the series inception in 1915. From the estate of Herb Yellin, Updike's publisher at Lord John Press. ; 775 pages; Signed by Editor
Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's red cloth binding with titling in gold to the spine, and housed in the publisher's slicpcase; xxiv, [1], 2-775, [776] pages; the shrinkwrap is present, though we removed it neatly from the spine so that we could examine the book; the edition is limited to 200 copies, of which this #139 signed by Mr. Updike. Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue of 200 numbered copies signed by Updike on the limitation page. Copy #22. Edited with an Introduction by Updike. Co-edited with a Foreword by by Katrina Kenison. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Fine condition in a Fine slipcase.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Edited by John Updike. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the editor: "for Herb Yellin, Stories that aren't mine but I'll sign the book anyway. All best, 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.