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The First Picture Book
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this photography book limited to 250 copies. Afterword by John Updike. Book includes 24 offset lithographs plus one laid in photogravure hand printed by Jon Goodman. SIGNED by Calderone and Updike. A fine clothbound copy in..... More
Rook Press Promotional Booklet for Updike's Sunday In Boston (Signed by Updike)
Derry, PA: Rook Press, 1975. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small single sheet of paper, folded to form a four-panel booklet. This is the publisher sheet with details regarding the publication of Rook Braodside 5 Sunday In Boston by John Updike. SIGNED by Updike on the front panel. Very good condition..... More
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Craetures
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's first book, a collection of poems. 82 pp. First issue dustwrapper. A handsome near fine copy in bright unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper. Very nice example of this important literary debut. More
Hoping For A Hoopoe
London: Victor Gollanz, 1959. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine first UK edition of Updike's first poetry collection published in England. Fine unclipped dustwrapper with publisher's 80p price sticker to inside front flap. More
Hoping For A Hoopoe
London: Gollancz, 1959. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition of Updike's first book (called the Carpentered Hen in the US). Near fine in near fine price clipped jacket. Nice copy. More
Of The Farm
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 174 pp. Early novel by the author of Rabbit Run. Foxing to page edges. Interior pages unaffected. A very good copy in bright dustwrapper, clipped at front flap. More
The Poorhouse Fair (Inscribed)
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1959. Third printing. Hardcover. Stated third printing of Updike's first novel. 185 pp. Briefly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. A handsome near fine copy in clipped, but otherwise quite handsome dustwrapper. Mild spotting at lower spine area. Terrific photograph of the author in..... More
The Same Door
New York: Knopf, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this uncommon early work by Updike. 241 pp. Book is in lovely fine condition in a handsome very good plus dustwrapper with a short closed tear near the base of the rear panel. A nicer than usual copy... More
Sunday in Boston (Broadside Poem)
No Place: Privately Printed, 1975. First edition. Loose Sheets. Tall, single sheet broadside poem by Updike. Published as Rook Broadsides 5 in an edition of three hundred copies of which this is hand-numbered 124. A fine example. The broadside measures 14 x 11" wide. More
Sunday in Boston (Signed Broadside Poem)
No Place: Privately Printed, 1975. First edition. Loose Sheets. Tall, single sheet broadside poem by Updike. Published as Rook Broadsides 5 in an edition of three hundred copies of which this is hand-numbered 50. A fine example. The broadside measures 14 x 11" wide. SIGNED by both Updke and the..... More
Iowa (Signed Broadside Poem)
Portland, OR: Press-22, 1980. First edition. Loose Sheets. Large attractive broadside poem by Updike with copperplate etching by Liza Jones. One of 200 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies of which this is number 22. Broadside measures 15 x 22 1/2" wide. A clean near fine copy.250. More
Scenic (Broadside Poem)
San Francisco: Andrew Hoyem / Roxburghe Club, 1976. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single illustrated piece of paper measuring 9 x 12" tall. A poem by Updike from his Carpentered Hen collection of 1958 reproduced here as a broadside. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. One of 150 unnumbered copies printed by Andrew..... More
Small-City People (Signed by Artist)
No Place: Lord John Press, 1982. First edition. Loose Sheets. Large single sheet of arches paper with a single poem by Updike and with an illustration by Don Rico. Measures approx. 14 3/4 x 22 1/4" tall. One of 100 numbered copies. This copy has been SIGNED by Don Rico..... More