The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
by Updike, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. 82 pp. Grey paper-covered boards backed in black cloth w/ blue and white dust jacket. Soiling to DJ, heaviest at rear panel. Light soiling to boards and hinges. POs inscription to frep, "Gerald Wyndham Humphry, November 19th, 1958. Beacon." First edition, first state of Updike's first books of Poems. Two children listed in bio info.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126
- Title
- The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First State
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- American Poetry, Run Rabbit Run, Updike, Ipswich
Terms of Sale
small volume
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About the Seller
small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
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Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
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- Jacket
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- First State
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- First Edition
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