Updike's First Book
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures: Poems
Publication: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition.
Notes: Updike's first book, poems most of which originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine.
xii, 82 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated, with code B-H). Very minor wear at the base of the spine in a very near fine, first issue dust jacket, with "two small children" on the rear flap.
Item No: #341310
Price: $300
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