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Marry Me: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1976

Edition: First Trade Edition

Seller ID: 2205865

ISBN: 039440856X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition. A fine copy. Near Fine. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303 pp. As in Updike's 1968 Couples, two married households—in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases—meet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends. KEYWORDS: JOHN UPDIKE MARRY ME FICTION LITERATURE ROMANCE
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Bech is Back

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2203602

ISBN: 0394528069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. Spine slightly cocked. Near Fine. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The renowned Henry Bech is now fifty years old. In this wonderful classic novel, Bech reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and--surprise to all--writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller. If you've never read Updike before, there's no better place to start. If you've read him for years, you'll be delightfully reminded of John Updike's rightful place in the pantheon of quintessential American writers. CONTENTS: Three...
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Trust Me: Short Stories

By: Updike, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2198946

ISBN: 0394558332

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small stain to page edges. Jacket lightly toned. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. Here is trust betrayed--and fulfilled. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them, leaving each other, loving each other, often at the same time. Here is passion ignited and quenched, absurd hope, ineffectual regret. Here is life as we live it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career. Keywords: JOHN UPDIKE TRUST ME SHORT STORIES LITERATURE FIRST EDITION FICTION
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Rabbit Redux: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2269290

ISBN: 039447273X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor tear along top edge of jacket rear near spine, jacket very faintly toned. Ink stamp on bottom page ridge, top page ridge very faintly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 406 pp. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters -- finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complic...
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Seek My Face

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2273069

ISBN: 0375414908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A bit smoky. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 276 pp. Couched in the form of a day-long conversation between 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, living in seclusion in Vermont, and a chic young interviewer from New York, Updike's 20th novel is an ambitious attempt to capture the moment when America for the first time ever... led world art.
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Marry Me: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2274041

ISBN: 039440856X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light stain to jacket spine base, page ridge lightly foxed, front jacket flap lightly creased. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303, [5] pp. 8vo. As in Updike's 1968 Couples, two married households—in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases—meet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends.
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Brazil: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2276293

ISBN: 0679430717

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First trade edition. Light stain on jacket base, page ridges lightly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. 8vo. They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of t...
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Gertrude and Claudius

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Knopf: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2275658

ISBN: 0375409084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. NEW. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger bro...
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2276061

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition. Faint crease along front jacket edge, otherwise an excellent copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so.
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A Month of Sundays: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2281548

ISBN: 0394495519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped, rear jacket flap creased. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1975 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 228 pp. In this antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style...
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Rabbit at Rest (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society)

By: Updike, John

Price: $150.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2289785

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 1990 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-page color image precedes title page. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special f...
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S.: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Knopf: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2291636

ISBN: 0394568354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). S. details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser, and her psychi...
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The Rabbit Tetralogy: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $950.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books: 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2295375

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First editions. Rabbit, Run includes first state jacket with 16-line blurb on front flap. First volume: jacket lightly rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink initials on front endpaper. Second volume: front free endpaper removed. Third volume: publisher stamp on page base, faint crease on front jacket flap. 1960 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Four hardcover volumes. 307, [3]; 406, [2]; 467, [5]; 512, [6] pp. 8vo. The saga of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom. Books three and four in the series both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982 and 1990). Because the publication...
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2296329

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus (first trade edition, following Franklin Library edition). Quarter inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, minor tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Remainder mark on page base, top page ridge very lightly bumped. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so.
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2296442

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Rear jacket panel creased, light general wear to jacket. Remainder mark, ink stamp on title page. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so.
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