Isbn: 9780394403830 - midpoint and other poems (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First Edition; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ mild foxing present; Previous owner name present at front free end-page; Pages otherwise completely free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket in Good condition, moderately edge-worn, now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy; Stored and shipped in protective polybag; Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published April 23, 1969, Second Printing, January 1978. 99pp. Very Good hardcover, an erstwhile remainder, has red stripe on tail & substantial reddish foxing on exterior spine-area boards, o/w unmarked w/clean cream-colored pages. (So not so bad.) "In the boldly eclectic title poem of this collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year--at midpoint. These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. [] The remainder of the volume is a six years' harvest of light verse and incidental lyrics--poems dealing with love and death, animals and angels, places and persons, dream artifacts and the naked ape. As a writer of humorous verse Mr. Updike is alone in his generation; to serious poetry he brings the vision and warmth characteristic of his prose." [jacket copy] "One of the best poets writing today. . . It is a poetry of civility--in its epigrammatical lucidity; in the matters it treats of. . . and in its tone of vulgar bonhomie and good appetite."--Thomas M. Disch, Poetry. "The persona that emerges. . . is mentally alive, alert of eye, quick to give and to enlist sympathy. . . I was entranced. The virtuosity of the stuff is dazzling, the satire devastating."--X.J. Kennedy, The New Criterion. This VG hardcover has a very-slightly-cocked spine & is wrapped in an intact VG jacket of clean exterior, slight reddish foxing inside. (So not so bad for a 48-year-old volume.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf [1969]. First edition. First printing. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/fine. Price clipped. Not a book club edition. 4600.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Trade Edition. Updike's third poetry collection. The trade edition was preceded by a limited signed edition of 350 copies. Fine book in near fine price-clipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Limited Edition. 99 pages. First edition, first printing. One (162) of 350 specially bound copies, printed on special paper, each numbered and signed by Updike. Fine book in fine dust jacket and slip case. A beautiful copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: FINE. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on FFEP 'to Stathis Orphanos.'Stathis Orphanos was a photographer noted for his portraits of writers, including Updike. He and his partner, Ralph Sylvester also operated the Los Angeles fine-press publishing company 'Sylvester & Orphanos,' which published Updike's book *Impressions* along with other projects to which Updike contributed. First Printing. 99pp. Light brown cloth gilt spine lettering, yellow topstain. An exceedingly clean and crisp copy in like dust jacket. Signed By Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition, Special Edition. 99 pages. Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing. Signed by Updike on the title page. Advance review copy with slip laid in. His third collection of poetry. Dust jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. Fujita, S. Neil (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …