Updike's personalized stationery. 5.5 x 8.5 ruled notepad sheet with perforated topedge. Undated (but likely 1986). 38 words. Updike explains why he did not sign a book sent to him. "My wife says I shouldn't sign bound galleys. so I didn't sign RV". He requests that his correspondent doesn't "send any more big bags of books" and ends with "Good luck in the 1/2 marathon. Yours, John Updike." Above his note Updike had written "1 call Angela" and above that a cartoon head portrait, both lined out. Small crease across the topedge. Near Fine condition. Before his career as novelist and poet, Updike studied art and has said in many interviews that his ambitiion as a PA high schooler was to be a "New Yorker" cartoonist. Seller Inventory # 31817

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Title: Holograph Note Signed

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Revere Books in Fernandina Beach, FL has been offering fine first editions to collectors and institutions since 1991. American and British literary fiction and poetry are specialties with particular attention to signed copies. Member ABAA/ILAB & IOBA Listings are updated every business day and the images are of the actual books described and are not stock photos. Orders are shipped the day they are received or next business day in boxes with bubble wrapping. Please browse our stock of more than four thousand titles and feel free to contact us about any listing.

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