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This is an excerpt from The poorhouse fair : a most unusual first novel / by John Updike ...

Accession number
PML 187463
Creator
Updike, John.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Cover title.
"Which we will publish in early January 1959. We believe that this perceptive and moving parable on the ages of man introduces a novelist of remarkable originality to the American reading public"--Front wrapper.
Library's copy housed in gray cloth clamshell box.
Advertising piece distributed by the publisher in advance of the January 1959 publication date of The poorhouse fair.
Text consists of a cover page, a copyright page which also includes "A Note on the Author," and the final four "chapters" of Section One.
Description
[55]-67 pages ; 21 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
White stapled wrappers printed in black.
Classification
Department