2003, ISBN: 9780394579047

Hardcover

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/None, As … More...

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 210 pages. The author's debut collection of essays on art. Limited Slipcased Edition of 350 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The Limited Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Alfred A. Knopf: Regular-sized volume format. Marbled hard boards with black linen cloth overboards and spine and gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by John Updike. Matching black linen cloth slipcase. Printed on glossy stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, John Updike's "Just Looking". His first - and best - book on art, a lifelong passion. "Free of abstraction and jargon and radiant in its curiosity and discernment, he can't help but bring a novelist's psychological insight to his discussion of art, even as he expertly considers technique and aesthetics. Updike is Receptivity Personified, writing about art with ardent attention, knowledge, and profound appreciation. Updike's immersion in art assures us that there are oases from the crassness of commercial images" (Donna Seaman). The title is almost self-consciously modest: Updike was not just looking; he was looking more keenly than most art "experts" and scholars. Written in Updike's characteristic lapidary style: Chiseled, polished, impeccable. There is such a thing as a John Updike line or sentence in the sense that there isn't in any other living American writer today. Susan Sontag regarded him as the finest stylist in the English language of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for John Updike collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in blue ink-pen by John Updike. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. A writer all his adult life, John Updike was probably the most-honored American writer of our time: Winner of numerous awards, among them the Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1959), National Book Award for Fiction (1964), O. Henry Prize (1967-68), American Book Award (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1982, 1990), Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award (1982), National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1984), and the National Medal of the Arts (1989), the highest award the U. S. Government bestows on its artists and writers. In 1976, he became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003, Updike received the National Medal for Humanities, joining a very small group of great living Americans who have been honored with both the National Medal of the Arts and the National Medal for the Humanities. Updike's greatest novels, "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit At Rest", won Pulitzer Prizes. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN UPDIKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394579046., Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, 5<

1989, ISBN: 9780394579047

Hardcover

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 212 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's many illustrations - color and b&w, p… More...

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 212 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's many illustrations - color and b&w, plates and cuts - throughout. The novelist's essays are keyed to exhibitions he visited, including a Degas retrospective, a much-hyped Renoir show, Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" paintings, others of American painters. Imperial 8vo (8-1/4" x 10-1/4"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping on boards, printed on semi-gloss stock, a bit sunned along top edges, touch of dust soil and barely visible incipient foxing to top edge, a few small spots of foxing to end papers, light smudge to fore-edge. Pages unmarked. Unclipped DJ has very scant visible wear., Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, 4<

1989, ISBN: 9780394579047

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st printing trade edition cloth hard cover with dust jacket. Old price and faint smudge on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed, now in a new mylar cover… More...

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st printing trade edition cloth hard cover with dust jacket. Old price and faint smudge on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed, now in a new mylar cover. viii, 210pp., index, illustrations. Twenty-two essays on art with subjects ranging from Andrew Wyeth's Helga paintings to children's book illustrators to classic masters Vermeer, Monet, Degas and others.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall., Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, 3<

1989, ISBN: 9780394579047

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st printing trade edition cloth hard cover with dust jacket. Unmarked copy showing some reader's use and handling. Dust jacket is shelf rubbed. viii, 210pp.… More...

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st printing trade edition cloth hard cover with dust jacket. Unmarked copy showing some reader's use and handling. Dust jacket is shelf rubbed. viii, 210pp., index, illustrations. Twenty-two essays on art with subjects ranging from Andrew Wyeth's Helga paintings to children's book illustrators to classic masters Vermeer, Monet, Degas and others.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall., Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, 3<