Accession number
PML 187424
Creator
Updike, John.
Published
New York : Frank Hallman, ©1974.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition, first printing, lettered copies. Cf. De Bellis & Broomfield.
"276 copies ... printed by Andrew Hoyem, San Francisco, of which 250 are numbered, 26 lettered, and the entire edition is signed by the author"--Colophon.
Library's copy is copy I.
"Grateful acknowledgement to New York Quarterly which printed this poem in a different form"--Title page verso.
"276 copies ... printed by Andrew Hoyem, San Francisco, of which 250 are numbered, 26 lettered, and the entire edition is signed by the author"--Colophon.
Library's copy is copy I.
"Grateful acknowledgement to New York Quarterly which printed this poem in a different form"--Title page verso.
Description
[17] pages ; 19 x 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: For William Meredith, the only thing I have in poetry to thank him for his beautiful book about another kind of Hazard. warm regards, John Updike; inscription in graphite in unknown hand on front flyleaf: June 1975; author's signature in ink below colophon (half title page) as issued; author's inscription in ink rear flyleaf: (upside down) For William Meredith, the only thing I have in poetry to thank him for his beautiful book about another kind of Hazard (crossed out), oops.
Provenance
Signed to William Meredith; Carter Burden.
Binding
Light maroon boards with triangular pink label printed in black pasted down to front cover.
Classification
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