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Updike, John. The Texas Arts Journal, Number One: The Manuscript Edition. Texas Arts Journal, 1977.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 109 pages. 8-3/8 by 10-7/8 inches. Contains Updike's libretto for a Grimm-inspired children's opera, The Fisherman and His Wife. Limited to 22 copies, with a page of the original typescript signed by Updike laid-in to a folder labeled with limitation details. The opera premiered at the Opera Company of Boston in 1970, with score by Gunther Schuller. First edition (first printing). Small snag to cover edge, thus a near fine copy; labeled folder and signed typescript page fine (page 28). A photocopied letter from Updike laid-in explains: 'I talked Knopf into letting me make it a children's book in format like other opera plots.But when I settled to the task it appeared to me I should spare bookbuyer[s] and booksellers one more volume to deal with.' Enclosed in publisher's slipcase with paper label stating edition details. [JSP01].
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Texas Arts Journal #1 Manuscript Ed. +1 copy. Cameron Northouse, 1977.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two SIGNED copies of The Texas Arts Journal, #1, with a contribution by John Updike. The first copy is the Manuscript Edition, 1 of 22 copies. It is Fine, with a Fine folder and Signed manuscript page, in a Fine slipcase. The second copy is a first trade edition, Signed by John Updike at his contribution. Scarce pair.
Seller: D & L Fine Books, Richboro, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Texas Arts Journal Number 1. Patrons Edition. [1977] numbered limited printing (1 of 22); includes folder with five signed typescript pages, one of each (contributors to the journal): John Updike, William Saroyan, George Garrett, James Purdy, and Morse Peckham. Journal is in fine condition or nearly so; folder and loose leaves are fine; slipcase is at least very good, with some rubbing to label. A very rare item for the collector of literature and/or Texana. 15855. 650.
Seller: Forgotten Lore, Friendswood, TX, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Texas Arts Journal: Manuscript Edition. Texas Arts Journal, Dallas, 1977.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in fine slipcase. Contains Updike's libretto for a children's opera, *The Fisherman and His Wife*. One of 22 copies, consisting of an issue of the magazine, and a printed folder with a page of the original typed manuscript laid in, Signed by Updike. This page is numbered page 33. The only appearance of this piece in printed form.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.