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John Updike First Book The Carpentered Hen

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Description

Heading:
Author: Updike, John
Title: The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: [1958]
Description:

Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition.

Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. The author's first book. First state jacket with last line on rear jacket flap reading "a wife and two small children."

Condition

Jacket lightly soiled on rear panel; boards a touch browned, as typical; near fine.

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Name: John Updike First Book The Carpentered Hen
SKU: 28639031
Price: 350 USD
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