Book #24817

The Witches Of Eastwick - 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing

John Updike
Book #24817 The Witches Of Eastwick - 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing. John Updike.
The Witches Of Eastwick - 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Trade Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
ISBN: 0394537602

A Fine first printing of the first Trade edition (preceded only by a privately published Franklin Library edition) in equally Fine dust-jacket, signed and inscribed directly on the front fly leaf to friend "Vance Morgan, maker of tidy book boxes" by author John Updike. De Bellis/Broomfield A100b.

In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont, the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, one day all three witches found themselves under the spell of a new man in town, Darryl Van Horne. His hot tub was the scene of some bewitching delights; 8vo; [viii], 307, [5] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $140.00

Author Bio

John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (Mar. 18, 1932 - Jan. 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series with Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest receiving the Pulitzer Prize. Updike was widely recognized for his careful craftsmanship and prolific output, having published more than 20 novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books.

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