UPDIKE, JOHN — Problems and Other Stories
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394507053. A stated first edition of this collection of 23 short stories by John Updike. Seventeen of these stories originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine. With a brief prefatory note by the author. --- In pale lavender paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with cover & spine titling in silver and gilt. Jacket features Updike-designed drawing of a love triangle. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Unclipped jacket with small nick to lower edge, else bright, inact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 260, (2) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
