Assorted Prose
Alfred A. Knopf, April 1965. Hardcover.
Alfred A. Knopf, April 1965. Hardcover.
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.....
Knopf, September 1982. Hardcover.
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.
Knopf, February 1982. Hardcover.
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.....
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 82 pages. 5-3/4 by 8-7/8 inches. Poems. British edition of the author's first book, printed in the United States as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. First British edition. Gilt lettering on spine a bit darkened, thus near fine. In a......
Alfred A Knopf, 1966. Hardcover. 259 pages. Stories by the author of Rabit Run. Second issue.
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2010. Trade Paperback. "Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned." That's how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In My Father's.....
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, August 1986. Hardcover. A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife -- and Roger.....
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.....
Alfred A. Knopf, November 2002. Hardcover. John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy.....
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, August 1963. Hardcover.
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 Inc, October 1997. Hardcover. 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 John Updike's.....
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.....
Knopf, April 1987. Hardcover.
Knopf, October 2004. Hardcover. John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 260 pages. Sheets printed on both sides. First edition thus. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Metacom Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 34 pages. A short story that originally appeared in the New Yorker. With a new four-page introduction by the author. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Updike, all of which were reserved for the author and publisher and none offered for sale. An.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. 299 pages. The novel describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush. The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû. ("A leader," writes Colonel Ellelloû, "is one.....
Alfred A. Knopf, February 2000. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.