John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and "Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d'esprit are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood Tree," a ...
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John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and "Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d'esprit are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood Tree," a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Times 's estimation, "the pre-eminent critic of his generation." Updike called this collection "motley but not unshapely." Some would call it a classic of its kind.
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Add this copy of Assorted Prose to cart. $10.99, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Very Good. 1965 Knopf hard cover-stated First Edition-first printing-minor wear and staining to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) slight staining to page edge-otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean-has the marvelous Ted Williams essay and fun parody of On the Road-a true collectible-enjoy.
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Very Good- jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed on tipped in page by author John Updike. First Edition. Good in Very Good-unclipped dust jacket; light edge wear to dj. Used, light foxing to boards, spine ends softened, foxing to textblock edge, with NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Add this copy of Assorted Prose Updike, John to cart. $65.00, very good condition, Sold by Twice Sold Tales rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ashfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Very Good. 1965 Knopf hard cover stated First Edition first printing-signed by Updike on title page-glue residue and label inside cover-label and minor wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) otherwise cover and binding like new contents clean-very nice-enjoy.
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Fine. 039441473X. Fine in a Vg. + or better dj. (1"-inch tear & shelf wear at crest of spine on dj. Clear tape mend on inside of dj. A few short edge tears & traces of mild edge wear to dj. Trace of foxing at edges of cloth) (LC)
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. The hardcover stated Knopf First Edition from 1965. Other than a clipped back cardholder flyleaf (ex libris), both the mylar-covered DJ and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, etc., and the pages and binding are tight as a drum. Due to the vagaries of market fluctuations, an item may occasionally seem overvalued. To compensate for that possibility, all serious buyers are welcome to make a best offer on each and every item listed, with the assurance that ALL reasonable offers will be accepted.
Add this copy of Assorted Prose to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Very good; Collectible. The hardcover stated Knopf First Edition from 1965. Other than a clipped back cardholder flyleaf (ex libris), both the mylar-covered DJ and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, etc., and the pages and binding are tight as a drum. If you wish to negotiate the already low price, buyers are ALWAYS welcome to make me an offer I can't refuse.
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