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1st Edition (stated) hardcover w/DJ. LIKE NEW, clean, tight, unmarked. Binding is so tight the book appears unread. Free delivery confirmation.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p.

Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First trade edition. Last printed page affixed to rear pastedown due to a binding error (somewhat obscuring colophon on verso), thus near fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike's 13th novel.

Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Dust jacket VG w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy.

Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Clean, bright, solid, unmarked volume bound in pink half cloth w/silver and gilt titles, with pink boards. Jacket dark green with a large letter S. on the front, with light wear to extremities. A modern version of Hawthorn's "The Scarlet Letter". The S of this story is for Sarah Worth who goes West to Arizona to join the commune of a Hindu religious leader called the Arhat. This novel takes the form of letters and tapes that she sends to her husband, mother, daughter, brother, hairdresser, psychiatrist, dentist--to keep her old world while trying to create a new one. Author John Updike is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 279 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1988, Alfred A Knopf, New York, New York, USA.