Item #5744 AMERICANA AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO ALISON LURIE. John Updike.

AMERICANA AND OTHER POEMS - INSCRIBED TO ALISON LURIE

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Updike's penultimate collection of poems. Lurie (1926-2020), a friend and contemporary of Updike's, won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs (1984) two years after Updike won it for Rabbit Is Rich. In recent years she wrote a favorable review of The Widows of Eastwick ("Widcraft," 2009) in The New York Review, and sat on the committee for the inaugural John Updike Award (2011), presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A brief but meaningful inscription between two Pulitzer Prize-winners. Item #5744

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; xii,95,[3]pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie: "For Alison Lurie / Warm regards / John Updike / 4/15/01." Base of spine gently nudged, a few barely discernable foxed spots to upper board edges, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $23.00), with a hint of sunning to spine panel; very Near Fine.

Price: $450.00

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