LOT #36144 |
Sold on Feb 8, 2012 for: Not Sold
John Updike. The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures. Poems by John Updike. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1...
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Description
First Edition of John Updike's First Book, Inscribed to an Editor at The Reader's Digest
John Updike. The Carpentered Hen and other tame
creatures. Poems by John Updike. New York: Harper &
Brothers, [1958]. First edition of the author's first book.
Inscribed by Updike on the rear free endpaper (upside-down!):
"for Caroline Rogers/Best wishes/John Updike". Laid-in is a Typed
Letter Signed by Ms. Rogers, on Reader's Digest stationery and
dated "May 21, 1970" requesting that Updike sign her book. Below
her signature, Updike has responded in holograph: "happy to - if
you send it with/stamped return book envelope/J. U." Also laid-in
is the original envelope for the letter, addressed in Updike's
hand. Octavo. [xii], 82, [2, blank] pages. Publisher's black
cloth backstrip over paper-covered boards, front cover and spine
stamped in gilt. Original pictorial dust jacket. Very minor rubbing
to jacket. Fine. A wonderful book and letter, of the highest
interest to the modern first collector.
Auction Info
2012 February 8 Rare Books Signature Auction - Beverly Hills #6064 (go to Auction Home page)
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