Accession number
PML 187492
Creator
Updike, John.
Published
New York : Gotham Book Mart, ©1993.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First printing, issue in boards, numbered copies. Cf. De Bellis & Broomfield.
"This first edition of The twelve terrors of Christmas is limited to 500 numbered and signed copies in wrappers and 100 numbered and signed copies in boards. 26 additional copies are lettered and signed and reserved for author, illustrator, and publisher"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 88.
"John Updike's text was originally published in the The New Yorker as 'The twelve terrors of Christmas' under the rubric 'Shouts and mumurs'"--Title page verso.
"This first edition of The twelve terrors of Christmas is limited to 500 numbered and signed copies in wrappers and 100 numbered and signed copies in boards. 26 additional copies are lettered and signed and reserved for author, illustrator, and publisher"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 88.
"John Updike's text was originally published in the The New Yorker as 'The twelve terrors of Christmas' under the rubric 'Shouts and mumurs'"--Title page verso.
Description
[28] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author and illustrator's signatures in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Brown boards illustrated in black, with brown endpapers.
Classification
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Department