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The Coup
de UPDIKE, John
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 039450268X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502687
- Librería
-
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1978. BCE. Hardcover. 039450268X . Book club edition. John Updike's intriguing novel of Africa is based on a mythical nation he calls "Kush" (which may be based on Chad) and makes for a very entertaining read. --- In green cloth-covered boards with author name and spine titling stamped in silver and gilt; yellow topstain. Jacket features Gene J. Puskar photographic portrait of Updike to back flap. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy but with prior owner's signature to front free endpaper. Jacket with large open tear near tail of spine, a fair bit of rubbing but remaining mostly intact and protected in clear removable mylar wrapper.; 31458; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 299 pages .
Sinopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 31458
- Título
- The Coup
- Autor
- UPDIKE, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- BCE
- ISBN 10
- 039450268X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502687
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1978
- Palabras clave
- 039450268X, 039450268X
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Sobre el vendedor
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
