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First limited edition, one of 250 copies signed by Updike on the limitation page at the end of the book. Printed by Ron Gordon at the Oliphant Press. An address that Updike originally gave at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters on May 24, 1979. Green marbled paper with maroon cloth spine & titles stamped in gilt on spine with a pictorial label on the front cover. As new book with no unprinted white paper dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Octavo. 13, [5] pp., frontis. First edition, limited to 250 copies, signed by Updike. As issued, backed in cloth with marbled paper over boards; and plain paper wrapper. Light shelf rubbing only, a very handsome copy.

First edition. Fine in quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards in a slightly spine-tanned and soiled, near fine original unprinted dustwrapper. One of 250 copies Signed by the author. The text of an address.

First edition. Fine in quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards and fine original unprinted dust with the tiniest bit of soil on the front cover. One of 250 copies Signed by the author. Text of an address.

Limited Issue, one of 250 copies signed by the author. Octavo; marbled paper over maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, with pictorial lable applied to front cover; publisher's unprinted gray paper dustjacket; 13, [7]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. First separate edition of the author's address, originally given under the title "Hawthorne's Religious Language" as the Evangeline Wilbur Blashford Foundation Address at the annual ceremonial of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters on May 24, 1979.

An attractive first edition/first printing, limited to 250 copies, in unread Very Fine condition in Fine dustjacket, SIGNED by author John Updike directly on the limitation page; During the many years of John Updike's use of Hawthorne for his fictional purposes, Updike created this survey of Hawthorne's lifelong struggle with religion; 8vo; Signed by Author

13 [4]p., front. drawing, original plain dj, deckle edges, near fine, SIGNED by the author.in the colophon. "This is Number Twelve of the Targ Editions published in Greenwich Village in New York City in August, 1981. The book was designed & printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, & bound by Spink & Gaborc, New York. The type is Baskerville & the paper, Nideggen. This first edition is limited to 250 copies, signed by the author."