The CARPENTERED HEN And Other Tame Creatures. Poems.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1958). 1st edition (De Bellis & Bloomfield A1). 82 pp. 8vo. Black cloth spine over creme colored paper-wrapped boards. Green & white dust jacket. Average wear, age-toning. A VG book in a VG, price-clipped jacket. Item #32112.1
NB. While the jacket on this copy has the reputed first issue points, we note Updike's bibliographers question the use of 'first issue' for dust jackets of the first printing of this work, noting they'd never seen a legitimate first printing with any jacket other than the reputed 'first issue'.
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