signed first edition Hardcover
1998 · New York
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 037540368X . A most beautiful first Trade edition/first printing preceded only by an Easton Press private publication in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author John Updike directly on the title page. De Belllis/Broomfield A166b; A continuation of the chronicles of the protagonist of two of Updike's popular previous works, the "moderately well known Jewish-American writer," Henry Bech. The five stories herein follow Bech through Prague, France, Sweden, California, and New York, as a fictional counterpart through which Updike comments on the foibles--literary, academic, and cultural--of his, and our, times; 8vo; 1 leaf, [x], 240, [4] pages; Signed by Author .
(Inventory #: 15169)