Accession number
PML 187479
Creator
Updike, John.
Published
London : Andre Deutsch, 1988.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Second edition, first printing, Roman numbered issue in green leather. Cf. De Bellis & Broomfield.
"Of this numbered, signed and limited edition 97 copies have been produced of which 12 copies are bound in full green calf and are numbered I to XII and 85 copies have been bound in quarter calf. Of the quarter leather copies 10 marked A to J are not for sale, being reserved for the author and publishers and 75 copies numbered 1 to 75 are fo sale"--Colophon (recto of tipped leaf).
Library's copy is no. VII.
"Of this numbered, signed and limited edition 97 copies have been produced of which 12 copies are bound in full green calf and are numbered I to XII and 85 copies have been bound in quarter calf. Of the quarter leather copies 10 marked A to J are not for sale, being reserved for the author and publishers and 75 copies numbered 1 to 75 are fo sale"--Colophon (recto of tipped leaf).
Library's copy is no. VII.
Description
244 pages ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Full green leather with spine printed in gilt, with dark green endpapers, edges stained gilt, in marbled board slipcase as issued.
Classification
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