Random House Inc, October 1998. Hardcover. Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous "Bech: A Book" and "Bech Is Back," has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued.....

Andre Deutsch, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 262 pages. A play meant to be read as a novel. First UK edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Top edge a bit dusty.

Everyman's Library, 2001. Hardcover. 509 pages. Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike's playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories--collected in one volume for the first.....

Knopf, October 2003. Hardcover. ""He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time." --William H. Pritchard.....

Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. 491 pages. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. John Updike's seventeenth novel begins in 1910, and traces God's relation to four generations of an American family, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith, and becomes an.....

Alfred A Knopf, 1966. Hardcover. 259 pages. Stories by the author of Rabit Run. Second issue.

Knopf, October 1991. Hardcover. John Updike's fourth collection of nonfiction is his biggest and richest yet. The years have brought to him an increasing number of odd jobs, to which he has wittily responded. Here he contemplates our national monuments, the female body, the Fourth of July, the Gospel of.....

Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 1996. Trade Paperback. "A triumph." NEWSDAY The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds.....

Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 279 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; in a dust jacket with a bit of toning to the edges else fine. "S. "is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of.....

Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. 6-1/4 by 9-1/2 inches. A collection of essays from Updike's Talk of the Town column in the New Yorker. One of 300 numbered and signed copies. First edition (first printing). A bit of edge wear, thus a fine hardcover copy; no.....

Knopf, June 2006. Hardcover. The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by.....

Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 1998. Trade Paperback. A journal by an aging banker in which he reflects on subjects ranging from the decline of civilizations to the many-universes theory. The year is 2020 and America is in chaos following a nuclear war with China. Ben Turnbull, the hero of.....