signed Hardcover
1976 · New York
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John Updike in ink to special publisher's page. Of the first trade edition of Marry Me 300 copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered. This copy is hand numbered 219. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 303pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine backed in blue and lettered in gilt. Faint dust-spotting to bottom edge of text block. Decorative blue top-stain. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Toning and light rubbing to covers and edges of slipcase.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century—and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series: a novel set in 1962 in Greenwood, Connecticut, where Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others.
A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, “the twilight of the old morality, and there’s just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.”(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16794)
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century—and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series: a novel set in 1962 in Greenwood, Connecticut, where Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others.
A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, “the twilight of the old morality, and there’s just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.”(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16794)
