NY: Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. 919pp. First Edition. Signed and dated by Updike on the front free end paper. VG/NF. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt and silver spine titles and a grey topstain. Softening to spine ends, light off-setting to interior gutters, some quite light foxing to the deckled fore-edge of textblock. In a near fine, price-clipped, lightly age-toned dust jacket. Updike's first collection of essays and criticism.
