The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
by John Updike
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Enfield, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First edition in the first state (with 'two small children' on rear flap) of the dust jacket. The dust jacket is priced-clipped. Fine with just the hint of rubbing on the board tips and spine edges. Bookstore gift slip laid in. The author's first book.
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- Bookseller
- Ashlar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 216
- Title
- The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
- Author
- John Updike
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- poetry; Modern First Editions;
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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