Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. One card leaf folded to make four pages. Fine. Variant with printed copyright notice. A single poem issued by the publishers as a Christmas greeting. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Lovelorn Astronomer 2 copies, 1 SIGNED. G.K. Hall & Co., 1978.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two copies of The Lovelorn Astronomer by John Updike. The first copy is Fine, and is SIGNED. The second copy is also Fine. Uncommon, especially signed.
Seller: D & L Fine Books, Richboro, PA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Lovelorn Astronomer. G.K. Hall and Marquis Who's Who, Inc., (Boston), 1978.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A poem by Updike, published as a holiday greeting card. Signed by the author. Fine, with original (unused) mailing envelope. Together with a presumed proof copy, with the copyright notice handwritten (in an unknown hand) rather than printed on the rear cover. Also fine. Both housed together in a G.K. Hall envelope. An ephemeral piece, uncommon signed, and rare in the variant with the handwritten copyright notice. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.