9780233961521 - Midpoint and Other Poems by Updike, John (20 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and creasing - one tape repair.

First Edition. 1st UK edition. Page fore-edge foxed; text clean; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, & lightly shelf-worn Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:0233961526.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:0233961526.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.K. Edition. First U.K. Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover, dark gray boards with gilt titles, DJ, 99 pp, b&w photos, slight edgewear to price clipped DJ, else a clean and crisp copy.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate laid-in. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine (small impression from a removed sticker on front flap, age toning) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket. A tiny spot on the top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, VG+ in VG+ unclipped dw. Neat ownership names to upper corner of ffep. Text clean and unmarked. Dustwrapper has some edge wear with minor chipping at corners and head / tail of spine.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Near fine (light wear to extremities) in dust jacket showing light fading to edges of back and slight wear to extremities of dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. Near fine in mole cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Owner's name, place and date neatly written on front free endpaper. Top edge of text-block darkened and foxed. Fore-edge has a couple of fox-marks not affecting interior pages. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, very slightly rubbed at extremities. Top edge of front flap has a small crease. Top edge of rear flap has a tiny crease to one corner. Head and tail of spine very slightly rubbed, and head of spine has a couple of tiny nicks. Back panel of dustwrapper very slightly yellowed (being a white background). Dustwrapper not price-clipped, showing original publisher's dual price of 25s net and £1.25p. Cover bright. No tears. ***'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 own life at the end of this thirty-fifth year - at midpoint. These cantos are 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.' (Quote taken from inside jacket flap blurb). ***222 x 142 mm. 99 pages. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition of this poetry collection. ***Near fine in mauve cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. Boards clean and unmarked. Top edge of text-block slightly foxed. No bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No internal foxing. Pages clean. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, showing the original publisher's dual price of 25s / £1.25p net. No chips or tears. Dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed at the extremities. Head and tail of spine very slightly rubbed. Top of back panel of dustwrapper slightly creased. Back panel of dustwrapper very slightly marked (being a white background). Dustwrapper bright. ***222 mm x 142 mm. 99 pages. ***'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 own life at the end of this thirty-fifth year - at midpoint. These cantos are 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.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels "Rabbit, Run"; "Rabbit Redux"; "Rabbit Is Rich"; "Rabbit at Rest"; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered"), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both "Rabbit Is Rich" (1981) and "Rabbit at Rest" (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in the original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First British edition. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing.

First Edition. publisher's review with their ephemera loosely inserted. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 98p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: English poetry. 3 Kg.

First Edition. publisher's review with their ephemera loosely inserted. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 98p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: English poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!