The Afterlife - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
ISBN: 0679435832
The Afterlife - 1st Edition/1st Printing
A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed (to a Virginia collector) by author John Updike on the front fly-leaf.
John Updike's account of Carter Billings for whom all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass." Updike's collection of twenty-two stories; 8vo; [xii], 316, [8] pages; Signed by Author.
Price: $60.00
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