Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Updike, John. The Coup (SIGNED). Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$28.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by author on front end page. Knopf remainder stamp on bottom. Light yellow top edge stain of first edition. DJ has light shelf edge wear and tiny chip on front front corner. $8.95 price intact on DJ flap; mylar protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Green cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket, gilt title, (8.75 x 6 inches). Later Printing. 298 pages. SIGNED by Updike on front free endpaper. A clean, tight copy in unclipped ($8.95) jacket. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup (Signed First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing, second issue with the black top stain. Signed by the author to a laid-in decorative bookplate. The book appears unread -- binding square and tight, in full green cloth covered boards -- and is fine. The dust jacket -- now protected by a removable Brodart archival cover -- is easily near fine, with only minor shelfwear and some rubbing to the rear panel. A very sharp collectible copy. 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.
John Updike. The Coup. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Third printing of Updike's novel about violent events in the imaginary, land-locked African nation of Kush. INSCRIBED WARMLY BY JOHN UPDIKE, WITH A LITTLE DRAWING OF A CHRISTMAS HOLLY LEAF. Some light spotting, perhaps due to damp, although there is no sign of mold damage, to one corner of cloth covers; light rubbing to extremities of jacket, else fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. THE COUP. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1978.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: INSCRIBED by Mr. Updike on Front Free Endpaper. SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION, published December 7, 1978 per copyright page with ISBN 0-394-50268-X. Dj has "12/78" on rear flap and ISBN on back panel. Condition of book and text is NEAR FINE due only to previous owner's gift inscription, else FINE. Condition of DJ is NEAR Fine with Price intact on first flap. DJ has normal age appropriate shelf wear. "One of Updike's boldest and most imaginative performances" (Newsweek). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou.
Seller: BIAbooks, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good+ first printing of the first edition, publisher's remainder mark to bottom page edges, minor glue stain to front fly leaf, else Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author John Updike on the front fly leaf; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; Remainder; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A.Knopf, New York:, 1978.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: lime-green cloth; author's name on front in silver, lettering on spine in silver & gilt; top edge yellow, fore edge untrimmed; 299 pgs; green dust jacket w/ $8.95 on front flap, author photo by Gene J.Puskar on rear. quotes by Richard Gilman, Mary McCarthy, Peter Buitenhuis, Alfred Kazin, Brendan Gill & William McPherson on back cover. jacket design by S.Neil Fujita. fine copy in near fine(-) dust jacket; 3 small closed tears, w/ trivial creasing, along rear top edge; faint age-toning to rear edges; still, a very handsome copy.
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 298pgs. Green and beige cloth, gilt scythe on the front panel. illustrated endpapers. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a closed tear on the upper spine, otherwise fine. One of 350 signed copies, this being #274. In illustrated slipcase, liftoff on bottom edge. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bright, clean first edition of Updike's highly readable novel about the "imaginary African nation of Kush"; please also see the signed/boxed/limited edition as well as the 1st UK on my site Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A just about Fine first printing of the first edition in Near Fine dust-jacket, lightly edge-worn and tanned, signed and inscribed by author John Updike on the front fly-leaf; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Coup [Limited Edition, Signed]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 210. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain, housed in original pictorial paper-covered slipcase; [16],298pp. A Fine copy. Signed by the author on limitation page.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Very faint remainder mark bottom edge, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny creased tears. Signed by Updike. Updike's violently realistic tale of the imaginary African country of Kush.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Very faint remainder mark bottom edge and a sticker shadow on the front fly, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny creased tears and a little bubbling on the lamination. Inscribed by Updike. Updike's violently realistic tale of the imaginary African country of Kush.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup (Signed Limited Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 298 pages. From an edition of 350 numbered copies printed on special paper and specially bound but this an out of series copy. A mid career novel from the author of the Rabbit Angstrom series and numerous other well received books. A fine copy in cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket with a 1.5" tear to the top of the spine and in very near fine illustrated slipcase with some very minute wear Signed by Updike on the limitation page.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. The Coup.. New York Knopf, 1978.
Price: US$88.74 + shipping
Description: 298 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. Gewicht (Gramm): 794
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York , New York, 1978.
Price: US$94.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Very Good + jacket, price marked thru rear panel toned, else Fine, 1st ed 1st pt , Signed to title page, in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup (SIGNED Plus SIGNED NOTE). Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing (with light yellow topstain for 1st). SIGNED (inscribed to seller) by author on front end page: "For Dan M--- John Updike". small owners name decal on inside cover. Tiny scrape on DJ on 'C' in Coup and light edge wear at spine ends. $8.95 price intact on dj flap; mylar protected. Also includes laid-in is a handwritten SIGNED note from author: "OK- I'll sign and send back 'The Coup' if you enclose postage & a return envelope. Best, John Updike". Also includes the author hand addressed return envelope. Also includes laid-in the original USA Today obituary for Updike. Nice signed copy with associated author signed note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1978.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition, 1 of 350 signed and numbered copies; this being the number 129. Signed by John Updike directly on the limitation page. Light, scattered age-spots at outer page edge, else book, dust jacket, and slipcase in fine condition.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny creased tears. Signed by Updike. Updike's violently realistic tale of the imaginary African country of Kush.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike price-clipped dustjacket. SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the front flylear. First of two trade issues, yellow top edge stain, De Bellis/Broomfield A66a1; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
John Updike - In Slipcase. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book FINE; dust jacket FINE; slipcase FINE
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 350 Signed by the author and specially bound.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. THE COUP [Signed Limited]. Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y., 1978.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A very fine Signed Limited Edition, no. 140 of 350 copies. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition. No bumped corners to book or slipcase. No tears or chips to jacket. A lovely copy.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Some toning on the spine else near fine in an about fine dustwrapper in a near fine slipcase with some toning and a bumped corner. Copy 7 of 350 Signed by the author and specially bound.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. THE COUP (SIGNED LIMITED). Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y., 1978.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: A very fine hardcover copy in a very fine jacket/brodart covered. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies. Housed in a fine slipcase. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition. No tears, no chips to jacket. No bumped corners to book.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$155.07 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition - One of the 350 copies printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered. This is number 218. Fine unread tight condition. Dustjacket not price clipped and protected in archive cover. In it's pictorial slipcase as issued, also in fine condition
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
UPDIKE, John. COUP. Deutsch, 1978.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: UPDIKE, John. THE COUP. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Limited edition, part of a special run of the first edition, 1/350 numbered copies, out of series, signed by the author. 8vo., green and white cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Fine, in a dust jacket and slipcase.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A handsome special first edition/first printing, limited to 350 copies, this being out of series, in unread, about Fine condition in alike Fine, slightly sun dust-jacket with spine fading. SIGNED by author John Updike on the limitation page in Fine publisher's slip case. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century, as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very nice Limited Numbered First Edition signed by the author. In near fine green and cream cloth in a fine dustjacket, in a near fine slipcase. There is mild staining on the top back cover, covered by the dustjacket, and a front mild stain on the front slipcase; otherwise fine/fine/fine. Numbered 288 of 350 Limited Edition copies. In unread condition. John Updike is the recipient of almost every major artistic and literary honor, including the National Medal of the Arts and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature (twice); his most famous novels are "The Centaur," for which he won the National Book Award, "Couples" "The Witches of Eastwick," and the "Rabbit" books including "Rabbit,Run," "Rabbit Redux," "Rabbit is Rich," for which he also won the Pulitzer Prize along with the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and "Rabbit at Rest," for which he won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A Knopf, 1978.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Alfred A Knopf - New York 1978. 8vo 300pp - First edition - a review copy signed by the author with a copy of his photograph. Hardcover - Blue/green cloth with silver and gold lettering. Condition as new with unclipped as new dust jacket.
Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 299 pages. First edition, first printing. Advance review book with publisher's notice, slip & photo of Irving laid in. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. Dust jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. His 22nd book and 11th novel. His violently realistic tale of the imaginary African country of Kush. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. THE COUP. Signed. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition of this Burgess 99 novel. One of 350 copies Signed by John Updike. A fine copy in the publisher's 1/4 white over green cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Top edge stained black. 8vo. 299 pp. In the publisher's slipcase, as issued.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Updike, John. The Coup. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$226.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition - One of the 350 copies printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered. This is number 218. Fine unread tight condition. Dustjacket not price clipped and protected in archive cover. In it's pictorial slipcase as issued, also in fine condition
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
John Updike. The Coup (SIGNED). Random House Publishing Group, 1978.
Price: US$247.50 + shipping
Description: Random House Publishing Group. Used; Like New. Knopf 1978 Hardcover with slipcase. SIGNED by author on limitations page. This first edition, signed copy is one of 350 such copies, this being number 211. Book is Fine in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. Dust jacket has a BroDart cover. Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition; Fine . 1978. SLIPCASED.
Seller: Fleur Fine Books, Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 299 pages. First edition, limited signed edition. One (63) of 350 numbered copies, signed by Updike on the limitation page at the beginning of the book. His 22nd book and 11th novel. His violently realistic tale of the imaginary African country of Kush. As new book in an as new dust jacket in an as new slipcase. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York, 1978.
Price: US$290.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A signed, limited edition copy of this thought-provoking novel by John Updike. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number 227. The Coup, a lauded novel about an African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made to Africa, found Updike working in new territory. The slipcase is in near fine condition. In a cloth binding with unclipped dustwrapper and presentation slipcase. Externally, smart. Very minor shelfwear. Very minor edgewear to the dustwrapper. Slipcase with just some light bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: The Coup by John Updike. Limited edition, signed and numbered in publishers slipcase with dust jacket. This being number 179 of 350 copies. Publisher: Alfred Knopf, New York, 1978. The book, dust jacket and slipcase in as new condition. 299 pages. A wonderful copy. Inventory number 10-162. Price: $300 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Updike's violently realistic tale of the imaginary African country of Kush. Inscribed by the author: "for Herb, Cheers, 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.
Updike, John. The Coup. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in dust jacket and illustrated slipcase. Number 319 of 350 numbered copies signed by John Updike.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Coup. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Beautiful signed, boxed edition #223/350; box also As New; highly readable Updike novel; please also see the 1st US and 1st UK on my site Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.