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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Revised Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate laid in. Octavo (21cm); maroon cloth covered boards stamped in gilt on cover and spine; dustjacket. 84pp.; Fine Copy; dustjacket is unclipped (priced $11.50); light edgewear, Near Fine condition. A re-issue of author's first collection of poems, originally published in 1958. This edition includes a new foreword by Updike.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover. Octavo, xvii, 84 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is grey with brown print. Dust jacket in mylar, light edge wear with short tears to top edged. Price unclipped: "$11.50". Boards in purple cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has small stain from removed label on front pastedown. Signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1371964. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Reprint Edition. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy cloth with titling in gold, and with dustjacket; xvii, [2], 3-84 pages; there is a very faint erasure mark on the endpaper; this copy is signed by John Updike (in green ink?) on the endpaper; the dustjacket has the merest trace of sunning to the spine; it has not been price-clipped.~~This is the First Knopf Edition, a re-issue of Mr. Updike first published book, originally publihsed in 1958.~~An attractive signed copy of the first printing of the re-issue. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Thus; Revised Edition. Signed by Updike without inscription at title page. Octavo. 84 pp. Printed dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with a short closed tear to top edge; ghost of a sticker to front. Boards sunned along top edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A re-issue of Updike's first collection of poems, originally published in 1958.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. 1st Edition . First Knopf edition. Near-fine with slight offsetting to endpapers, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a fine dust jacket with $11.50 price intact. INSCRIBED BY UPDIKE on the flyleaf to Stathis Orphanos, co-founder of Sylvester & Orphanos Publishing House and a well-known photographer who produced portraits of many famous authors, including Updike (who said he felt Orphanos gave him the definitive personality he always lacked). A beautiful signed copy with a nice association.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); pale gray paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,82,[2]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Light wear to spine ends, tiny stain to lower edge of textblock, with a tiny tear to upper front corner, and signatures starting to sag slightly (common with this title); Very Good+. In the first state dustjacket, price-clipped, but with "a wife and two small children" printed on rear flap; light wear to extremities, some mild dustiness to rear panel, and a short tear to upper front panel (tape-mended on verso); Very Good+. The National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A1.a.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. This copy has some light board edge wear, two board edge bumps, sewn binding not quite as tight when it was new I am sure. The 2.75 jacket has some light edge wear, light soil, light rubbing. This copy is housed in a custom slipcase. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. This copy has been signed John Updike on the title page. Points: ....wife and two small children, stated First Edition, B-H on CP page. One of a rumored 2000 copies that were published of John's first book..