The Poorhouse Fair.
UPDIKE, John.
The Poorhouse Fair.
"My own tiny contribution to Semitic studies with admiration and affection": FIRST EDITION OF JOHN UPDIKE'S FIRST NOVEL THE POORHOUSE FAIR; With a Note From Him
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
$450.00
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Item Number: 114676
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First edition of Updike’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. With a signed autograph note from Updike laid in which reads, “For Jack Neusuer my own tiny contribution to Semitic studies with admiration and affection, John.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Harry Ford.
"Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art" (The New York Times Book Review).
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