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John Updike's Poorhouse Fair - with signed bookplate

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Description

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Author: Updike, John
Title: The Poorhouse Fair - with signed bookplate
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1959
Description:

Original cloth-backed boards, lettered in silver, dust jacket. First Edition.

Decorative bookplate signed by John Updike laid in. Updike's second book and first novel. First issue dust jacket with the original price of $3.50 still intact and only one paragraph to rear flap.

Condition

Light wear to jacket with dampstaining along bottom edge; light wear to cloth with some fading to top edge; very good.

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John Updike's Poorhouse Fair - with signed bookplate

Name: John Updike's Poorhouse Fair - with signed bookplate
SKU: 64288438
Price: 200 USD
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