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Hardcover, full decorative brown leather. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. 241 pages. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. First edition, limited to 1,100 signed and numbered copies, signed by author John Updike. Certificate of Authenticity laid in, along with publisher’s bookplate and Collectors Notes. A compilation of stories featuring the titular character Bech: “Bech in Czech”; “Bech presides”; “Bech pleads guilty”; “Bech noir”; “Bech and the bounty of Sweden” (two of which appeared previously in the New Yorker magazine). A pristine copy, new in shrink wrap.