Updike, John

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Limited First Edition: 1 of 250, Out of Series. Octavo, xx, 519, xxiii pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket, housed in a Very Good minus slipcase. In green cloth quarter binding with tan cloth boards. Jacket is tan with darker tan lettering. Slipcase is in gray paper binding, patterned with blue text. Slipcase is moderately soiled, with rubbing along edges and bumping to the corners. Jacket shows light shelving wear, with some scuffing to the covers and sunning to spine. Some very light chipping at the top corner of the front flap. Boards show very light wear, with shallow crinkling at the head and tail. Text block is very lightly age toned, with faint foxing to the fore edge. Interior clean. Signed flat by Updike in blue ink ("John Updike") on limitation page, with "Out of Series" written where the copy number would typically be. Shelved in Room F.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $150

NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.