Accession number
PML 187422
Creator
Updike, John.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First printing, limited issue. Cf. De Bellis & Broomfield.
"Of the first edition ... three hundred and fifty copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 299.
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
"The slipcase art has been adapted from a photograph by Brett Weston; the jacket are from a photograph by Dr. Georg Gerster"--Front flap of dust jacket.
"Of the first edition ... three hundred and fifty copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 299.
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
"The slipcase art has been adapted from a photograph by Brett Weston; the jacket are from a photograph by Dr. Georg Gerster"--Front flap of dust jacket.
Description
298, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Green and white cloth with pictorial decoration stamped in gilt, with orange decorated in black endpapers, edges stained in black, with orange pictorial dust jacket, in pictorial board slipcase as issued.
Classification
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