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The Poorhouse Fair.
de UPDIKE, John
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
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- Librería
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.25"), 183 & [1] pages. Publisher's blue paper over boards backed in brick cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover. Top edge stained red. Lacking the dust jacket.
Slightly soiled & sunned, previous owner's name in ink at the first blank page, otherwise Near Fine.
Updike's second book & first novel. During the course of a prolific career he won two National Book Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, & numerous other accolades.
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
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1573
- Título
- The Poorhouse Fair.
- Autor
- UPDIKE, John
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1959
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- John Updike, Fiction, Literature, Religion
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Religion, Philosophy, Occult;
Términos de venta
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Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
Miembro de Biblio desde 2014
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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