Midpoint by Updike John (209 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. …

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

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: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Price of 50 cents faintly visible on front free endpaper. Jacket frayed at corners and extremities of spine.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. An excellent copy. 1969 Hard Cover. viii, 98 pp. "In the boldly eclectic title poem of his 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Anglo-ameri%u0161ka pravila za katalogizacijo knji%u017Eni%u010Dnega gradiva za potrebe katalogov in drugih seznamov splo%u0161noizobra%u017Eevalnih knji%u017Enic vseh velikosti. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Anglo-ameri%u0161ka pravila za katalogizacijo knji%u017Eni%u010Dnega gradiva za potrebe katalogov in drugih seznamov splo%u0161noizobra%u017Eevalnih knji%u017Enic vseh velikosti. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Light tan cloth wit gilt lettering. Unclipped dust jacket. Contents clean and tight with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Beige cloth with gilt title on spine, gilt author's name on front cover. Clipped dust jacket. Clean text and interior.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Good condition overall. Some dust jacket edge and corner wear. Previous owner bookplate on front endpaper and small darkened area on inside front cover. All intact. No writing in text pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. Fine in a very good dustjacket with a closed 1/2" tear to to of the front panel. (box 33). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First printing of this collection of poems written by the author in contemplation of his 35th year. Fine in a near fine dustjacket. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 151). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Beige cl. w. gilt letters. dj. Viii, 98pp. STATED FIRST EDITION. dj. in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; 99 clean, unmarked pages.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First British Edition. Bound in blue paper boards, sans DW; 99pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, stated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, very good condition, light wear to corners and edges, clean text, satisfaction guaranteed. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition NF/VG (unclipped dj has some minor wear and a tiny hole at the bottom of the spine).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slightly canted binding, corners sharp. Light foxing to cloth along top edges; very light soiling to opposite edges. Text and images unmarked. Minimal edge wear to dust jacket, in a mylar cover. Jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. 8vo. 99pp. …

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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge, previous owner's blind-stamp on front endpage, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.