![The Early Stories [Signed by Updike]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/171/224/1736224171.0.l.jpg)
The Early Stories [Signed by Updike]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition, stated. Octavo (24cm); portrait dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt and silver lettering; [xv],838pp; magenta topstain. Jacket rubbed at extremities, with bookstore Autographed Copy and 20% off stickers to front and faded scanner sticker over UPC on rear. Boards bumped at head of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Updike without... Read More
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![The Witches of Eastwick [Signed bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/446/029/1689029446.0.l.jpg)
The Witches of Eastwick [Signed bookplate laid in]
by John Updike
New York: Knopf, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Knopf, 1984. Stated First Trade Edition. Octavo (22cm); 311pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket; boards bound in purple cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine; blue-grey topstain. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to spine ends; toning to interior flaps and verso edges. Boards bumped at spine ends and toned at top edge. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Loosely laid in... Read More
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![The Coup [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/302/753/1582753302.0.l.jpg)
The Coup [Limited Edition, Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Fine/Fine. 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.
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![[Broadsheet] My First Thought About Art... [Limited Edition, With Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/548/791/1362791548.0.l.jpg)
[Broadsheet] My First Thought About Art... [Limited Edition, With Signed Bookplate]
by John Updike
[Ontario]: Aliquando Press, 1993. Fine. [Ontario]: Aliquando Press, 1993. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy. Broadsheet (33.5x23cm.); hand printed letterpress in purple, blue, and green on stiff dark mauve stock. Fine condition. Offered with bookplate signed by the author. Uncommon fine press broadside featuring a quote by Updike on his first impression of art as a child. Two copies only in OCLC as of November, 2020, at UCSD and... Read More
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![More Matter: Essays and Criticism [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/471/657/1683657471.0.l.jpg)
More Matter: Essays and Criticism [Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Fine/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition Stated. Thick octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth, red topstain, in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; [2],xxiii,[1],900pp. Light wear to jacket margins, else a Near Fine example. Signed by the author on title page.
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![The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/103/586/1485586103.0.l.jpg)
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures [Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Thus; Revised Edition. Signed by Updike without inscription at title page. Octavo. 84 pp. Printed dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with a short closed tear to top edge; ghost of a sticker to front. Boards sunned along top edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A re-issue... Read More
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![Talk From the Fifties [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/563/500/1475500563.0.l.jpg)
Talk From the Fifties [Signed]
by John Updike
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Very Good +. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Limited Edition of 300 copies signed by Updike at limitation page, this being #105. An additional printing of 75 deluxe copies in a different binding was printed by the publisher. Octavo. 63 pp. Decorative paper-covered boards with maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Gray endpapers. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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The Poorhouse Fair
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition, stated. Octavo (25.7cm); First-issue dust jacket with single paragraph on back flap; $3.50 price intact; blue boards and brick cloth spine with silver lettering; [vi],185pp. Jacket chipped at head of spine with partial loss of first letter; rubbing along edges and corners, with a small closed tear to bottom rear; foxing to verso. Boards are square with a slight bump to... Read More
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Flirt
by John Updike
Pittsburgh, PA: International Poetry Forum, 1975. Very Good +. [Pittsburgh, PA]: [International Poetry Forum], [1975]. First Edition. Broadside reproducing author's holograph poem and signature, one of approximately 500 copies printed for an October 1975 reading at Pittsburgh's International Poetry Forum. Light rubbing and toning with mild curling to edges. Not in De Bellis; scarce. [OCLC 20783377].
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![Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/416/162/1494162416.0.l.jpg)
Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Albert Raman, John Updike." Quarto (10.25" x 8.25"); [x], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; book in blindstamped navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some toning long top edges of flaps and a couple faint scratches to rear panel, but no chips,... Read More
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The Bone is Pointed
by Arthur W. Upfield
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First American Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Black cloth boards stamped in red. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges; scuffing and faint staining. Binding sound and interior unmarked; Very Good.
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Death of a Swagman
by Arthur W. Upfield
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1945. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream cloth, black spine titling; 221pp. Cloth rather foxed, spine toned, internally clean and sound. Overall a Very Good copy, albeit lacking jacket. Forms part of the Australian author's crime series featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon 'Bony' Bonaparte, this time following his attempts to uncover the mysterious death of... Read More
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Battle Cry
by Leon Uris
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 505pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.75 price intact. Navy cloth stamped in red. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few nicks and creases; mild rippling and spotting to verso. Boards show light wear to edges; binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of the author's first novel.
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Urs Fischer: Kir Royal
by Urs Fischer; Mirjam Varadnis [et al.]
Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich and JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2004. Very Good/Very Good. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich and JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (28.5x24x1.5cm); 232 + viii pp, including chronology and bibliography. Color illustrations throughout. All text in parallel German and English. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Apart from one faint shallow crease in the coating of the front cover lower right corner, the covers and textblock are unmarred and unmarked. Swiss artist Urs Fischer is... Read More
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![Changing Planes [Signed by Le Guin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/607/144/1730144607.0.l.jpg)
Changing Planes [Signed by Le Guin]
by Ursula K. Le Guin; Eric Beddows [illus.]
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2003. First Edition stated. Black and white illustrations by Eric Beddows throughout. Octavo (19.5cm). Pictorial dust jacket with price clipped. Light green endpapers. Publisher's paper over boards. 246 pp. Dust jacket has some rubbing to edges; light creasing near upper corners. No tears, no chips. "Autographed" sticker on front DJ panel. Boards clean and bright. Corners bumped. Binding sound. Pages unmarked. Overall, book is in very good condition... Read More
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Meditations pour les Retraites sur les Devoirs des Religieuses et de celles qui instruisent les jeunes filles
by [Ursulines]
Paris: Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, 1742. Very Good. Paris: Chez Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, Imp. Lib. ord. du Roy, rue S. Jacques, à la Victoire & au Palmier, 1742. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine with repeating floral and pinecone motifs, brown gilt-lettered spine label, marbled endpapers; [18],516,[14]pp.; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with their 19th-century rubber-stamps to title page, leather a bit scuffed with brief exposure at top corner of upper cover, bottom... Read More
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Die Bedeutung der Ideenlehre fur die Platonische Politeia
by [Plato] Oswald Utermohlen
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1967. Very Good. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1967. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 111pp. Spine a shade sunned, light dust-soil to top textblock edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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Johnny Appleseed and Other Poems
by Vachel Lindsay; George Richards [illus.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 144 pp. Three color plates; black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with $1.75 price present. Green cloth stamped in gilt and black; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped with short tears along edges and rubbing to spine. Light shelfwear to edges of boards. Binding is sound. Touch of fading to endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good copy. ... Read More
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Perníková Chaloupka
by Vaclav Ren; Jiri Trnka [illus.]
Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vysehrad, 1944. Very Good. Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vysehrad, 1944. First Edition. Slim quarto (23cm.); publisher's cream color-illustrated wrappers, French flaps; [40]pp.; color illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities slightly rubbed and rather toned, light soil, else Very Good, internally fine. Czech poet Václav Ren 's interpretation in verse of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," lavishly illustrated by a young(ish) Jiri Trnka (1912-1969). Following the end of World War II, Trnka turned his hand to puppeteering... Read More
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![The Messenger [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/961/480/1601480961.0.l.jpg)
The Messenger [Signed]
by Jean Valentine
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Signed by Jean Valentine with inscription, "to Ron, with best wishes, Jean Valentine April, 1983." Octavo. 67 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan and green boards stamped in black. Dust jacket lightly toned along edges; crease to rear flap; mild off-setting to verso along spine. Boards show mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.
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![Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/106/1629106458.0.l.jpg)
Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Paul Valery
Paris: Collection Bertrand Guegan, 1928. Very Good+/Very Good. Paris: Collection Bertrand Guégan, 1928. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies on vélin Canson-Montgolfier of which this is no. 100. Quarto (25.5cm.,); publisher's grey card wrappers in original glassine; xvi,197pp.; eight leaves of eaux fortes by the author (collated complete). Glassine uniformly toned and chipped along margins, internally clean and sound. A Very Good to Near Fine example signed by the author on colophon in rear.
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![Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/505/816/1621816505.0.l.jpg)
Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci [Limited Edition]
by Paul Valery
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1931. Very Good+. [Paris]: Editions du Sagittaire, 1931. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies on Velin de Rives of which this is no. 829. Quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],163pp.; facsimile annotations by the author printed in margins throughout. Light wear and dust-soil, else a Very Good or better example.
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The Gray Prince
by Jack Vance
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company, 1974. Very Good/Very Good -. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1974. First Edition, stated first printing. Octavo (21.5cm); 191pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with silver stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed. Boards faded along edges. Binding sound. Textblock foxed; endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good.
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![The Bagful of Dreams [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/289/647/1563647289.0.l.jpg)
The Bagful of Dreams [Limited Edition]
by Jack Vance
Columbia: Underwood / Miller, 1979. Very Good. Columbia: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Limited Edition (600 copies, unnumbered). Tall octavo (9.25" x 6"); [viii], 37pp. Illustrated blue paper wraps with black illustration and red. Covers are clean and crisp; spine a touch faded with a slight bump at head. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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The Lone Wolf's Son
by Louis Joseph Vance
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. First Edition, with no subsequent printings listed. Octavo; 304pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price; boards in red cloth with black lettering. Jacket shows a few closed tears at edges and folds along with some adjacent rubbing and creases and some general toning / smudging to surface. Boards are bright and square with nudging at spine ends and a few surface smudges. Front board opens... Read More
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