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Hugging the Shore
de Updike, John
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Librería
-
Ridgewood, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. 919pp. First Edition. Signed and dated by Updike on the front free end paper. VG/NF. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt and silver spine titles and a grey topstain. Softening to spine ends, light off-setting to interior gutters, some quite light foxing to the deckled fore-edge of textblock. In a near fine, price-clipped, lightly age-toned dust jacket. Updike's first collection of essays and criticism.
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
- Dividing Line Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000369
- Título
- Hugging the Shore
- Autor
- Updike, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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