The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures: Poems With Signed Bookplate Laid In

by John Updike

$375 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm ; pale gray paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,82, 2 pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Light wear to spine ends, tiny stain to lower edge of textblock, with a tiny tear to upper

• Binding: Hardcover

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