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First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original purple boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the Patricia Davey designed dustwrapper. A very near fine copu, the binding square and tight, the boards bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed an nicked dustwrapper that has been clipped and repriced by the publisher to the lower front flap, and is otherwise without loss or tears.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front endpaper "For Frank Collieson / warm regards / John Updike". The recipient was a bookseller who met Updike at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge on Friday, 16th March 1979, at an event to promote the publication of his latest novel 'The Coup'.