Hoping for a hoopoe : poems / by John Updike.

Accession number: 
PML 187439
Author: 
Updike, John.
Published: 
London : Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1959.
Description: 
viii, 82 pages ; 23 cm
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes: 

First edition, first British printing.
First American edition published under the title "The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures." Cf. de Bellis and Broomfield.

Binding: 
Black paper boards with gold lettering within gold double-rule frame.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Author's inscription in ink on flyleaf: For Toby Holtzman, [signed] John Updike.

Provenance: 
Inscribed to Toby Holtzman; Carter Burden.
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