The Poorhouse Fair.
First Edition of John Updike's First Novel The Poorhouse Fair; Signed by Him
The Poorhouse Fair.
UPDIKE, John.
$350.00
Item Number: 3493
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
First edition of Updike’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear to the spine and some chips to the rear panel. 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).
