Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Discarded library book with stamps, markings and pocket removed. Missing dust jacket previously taped to boards. Text very good with pencil notes on several pages.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 185. 8vo. Orange cloth to spine. Light shelfwear, minor discolouration to edges, ink stamps and lettering to rear pastedown. Dustjacket quite nicked and torn to edges, now protected with plastic brodart sleeve; very good in good dustjacket.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing, in the same format and quality and issued a few months after the first. What distinguishes this copy is the fine state of the original dust jacket, which retains its original price and comes in an archival Mylar cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good copy, lacking the dustjacket.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st printing. Good+ HC, no DJ. Blue paper over boards backed with red cloth, silver and gilt titles. Clean, square, lightly scuffed covers; faded on spine (titles faded but legible) and slightly along cover edges; very faintly damp stained along cover tail edges; tightly bound; slightly age darkened on end papers; light, clean interior. 8vo, 185 pp.
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$33.50 + shipping
Description: First printing of the first edition (stated). A very good plus copy lacking the dust jacket. BX 74
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$33.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Third printing. Blue-gray boards, brick-red cloth spine wrap, silver cover and spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. Bind Strong. At the County Home for the Aged, the inmates, having shed their cares and responsibilities, live out their remaining years. On the day of the Poorhouse Fair the order is broken and the old people take charge. It is a day neither Conner, the poorhouse prefect, nor his charges will forget. Updike's first novel describes the annual fair staged by the inhabitants of a New Jersey poorhouse. Although everything proceeds along traditional and unremarkable lines for most of the afternoon, a protest suddenly breaks out and threatens to overwhelm the young director of the home. 185 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 185pp. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with very thin fading along the extremities. In a very good or better dust jacket, entirely unfaded on the spine, and with a medium shallow chip at the top of the front panel. Nice copy of Updike's first novel, which immediately preceded "Rabbit, Run."
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1959.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This novel dexcribes a fair in a mansion-turned-poorhouse in a US headng downhill. The edges of the DJ are ightly chewed, a couple of small holes at the folds, and 1" v chip at the top of the spine. The book itself is in good shape. A filler copy.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition in a first issue dust jacket with the original price of $3.5 still intact & only one paragraph to rear flap. Book is very good, clean with no markings to text, binding is tight & square, dust jacket has tears & wear to extrems, tape repair to top of front panel, rear flap is torn halfway along edge, other half is still attached to dust jacket. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ, 1958, stated 1st Edition,with Publ Name Alfred A. Knopf, NY & 1959 on Title Pg, Color Decorated DJ light Rub, wear tiny Chips Tears Extremities & upper lower spine DJ, Mended tear front DJ, Brown Cloth spine with Gilt lettering & to Front Silver Gilt , Grey Boards slightly faded Extremities but Not to Spine Cover, Interior Nice, tight Clean Light Wear, F-/NF, AS-IS, 185 pgs + Note on Author
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf - New York, 1959.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rust orange cloth quarter-bound to spine over blue/gray paper covered boards. Silver titling to front and spine. Small bookk is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings. The book is ex-library but has very little use or signs of that past - stamps on top and bottom of page edges, some chafing where label was removed on FFEP an RFEP, and a small notation on title page at bottom of shelf number. Original first state DJ has price of $3.50 and the single paragraph on rear flap; no scuffing or shelfwear to speak of but one small closed tear to bottom back and some minor stains on inside from prior mylar wrapper. Overall a very nice copy in Very Condition with a VG Dust Jacket. 185 pp. This is Updike's first full novel.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition (stated) in first issue jacket, complete with $3.50 price (jacket has closed tears and slight wear to edges; 'Pious' written in ink on front endpaper). Author's first novel (and second book), set in rural New Jersey.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$109.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: gray papered boards, orange cloth spine, silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 185 pp, first edition, dj rubbed and frayed at the edges Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition stated, 1959. His 2nd book and first novel. Near Fine, small bumps bottom corners, prior owner name and date front end page. In a Very Good dust wrapper, small chips across top edge, small chip near bottom of spine, rubs and 1" tear rear panel.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing with first edition stated on copyright page. Quarter bound in light rust over blue-green boards. Spine has small section sunned at head of spine. No markings. Price intact jacket has chip at head of spine that carries over slightly to rear panel. Small chip and edgwear at front panel near fold along top edge. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Knopf, N.Y., 1959.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In colorful jacket over cloth backed boards, 8vo with DJ [6]+185+[1]pp. Author's first novel, set in rural New Jersey. From the collection of John Ruyle with his name and date to free-front endpaper.(minor light shelfwear to jacket extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair (Inscribed). Alfred Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated third printing of Updike's first novel. 185 pp. Briefly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. A handsome near fine copy in clipped, but otherwise quite handsome dustwrapper. Mild spotting at lower spine area. Terrific photograph of the author in sneakers on the rear dustwrapper cover. Very nice copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$198.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter bound in turquoise cloth over brown boards very clean and sharp except for small spots beneath center on front panel. First edition stated on copyright page. Textblock tight, square and clean. First issue jacket with reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on rear panel. Jacket has price intact ($3.75) has moderate edgewear at head of spine with some crimping and minor crease on rear panel. The blue background behind title on spine appears sunned as it is lighter that same background on front panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door; Short Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition stated, 1959, his 3rd published book, in the first issue dustjacket with "Also by John Updike: The Poorhouse Fair" and reviews on the rear panel and price of $3.75 front flap. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, spine a bit faded, small chips at head of spine, 1/4" tear base of spine, small rubs at tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition ( stated ) published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1959. Bound in publisher's blue cloth and dark gray boards. Updike's third book and first collection of stories ( following the poetry collection The Carpentered Hen and the novel The Poorhouse Fair. ) A fine example of the book. Dust jacket very good with some wear evident to edges - slightly more pronounced to head of spine. Corners of flaps clipped, but price ( $3.75 ) remains. Light stain to upper corner of rear panel, no effect to book.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Updike, John. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$212.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ with one closed tear and chipped at top spine. Spine a bit sunned; Author's first book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. The Poorhouse Fair.. New York Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$219.78 + shipping
Description: 185 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First Edition of the author`s first novel. With enclosed signed Exlibris of John Updike. - Uncliped Dust jacket with small damages at margins and few foxing. Gewicht (Gramm): 304
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair [Inscribed]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); blue-gray paper-covered boards and burnt orange cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [vi],185,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For Jack Grogins / Best wishes / John Updike." Light wear to extremities, topstain dust-soiled and a little dulled, with a hint of dustiness to text edges; Near Fine. In the first state dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), with modest wear to extremities, a few scuffs to spine panel, a few shallow losses, four tape-mended tears on verso, with scattered foxing to same; Very Good. Updike's first novel.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Original red-orange cloth, with paper-covered boards. Top edge dyed red-orange. First novel by successful American author of "Rabbit" series. Near fine, in very good dustjacket with very light wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition stated, 1959, his 3rd published book, in the first issue dustjacket with "Also by John Updike: the Poorhouse Fair" and reviews on the rear panel and price of $3.75 front flap. Near Fine, faint offsetting from jacket to front boards, faint erasure rear end page in a Very Good Plus dust wrapper, narrow crease front flap bottom corner, light soiling to rear panel, a few small edge tears and small chips.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. (i-iv), (1)-185, (186) A Note on the Author; A Note on the Type. Silver titled rust cloth backed gray-blue silver printed boards, top edges red-orange. Fine in the first state dust jacket with a single paragraph on the back flap blurb and not price clipped @ $3.50; clean & bright very good dust jacket but for a 3/8 v-chip at foot of backstrip and ½ x ¼ v-chip at lower right corner of the front panel and a closed seamed tear at the upper backstrip curving to the K in Updike. Updike's second book and first novel, an edition of 5000. H5641
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, JOHN.. The Poorhouse Fair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's first novel. A fine copy in a 'first issue' (printing) dust jacket. which is a bit wrinked. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door: Short Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Updike, John., Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, c1959, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), vg+ with vg- dj (light wear, slightly chipped, a few tears, in brand-new mylar), 242 pp, 8vo, Reviews for 'The Poorhouse Fair' on the rear dj panel, and original $3.75 price intact on the front flap. 'There is a superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door; thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story of this collection, is the narrator of the last', author's third book, quite scarce.
Seller: Gene Sperry Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. POORHOUSE FAIR. , 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: UPDIKE, John. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition of the author's first novel. 8vo., blue paper covered boards backed in red clot, spine in gilt. A very good copy; with a hint of sunning at the boards top edge in a first issue dust jacket (with one paragraph on the rear flap) that has a few close tears, very shallow chips to spine and two pieces of internal tape reinforcement. Still an attractive, collectible copy.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. , 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: UPDIKE, John. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition of the author's first novel. 8vo., orange cloth spine, letters stamped in gold and silver gilt to spine, grey-blue paper boards, author's name stamped in silver gilt to upper board, publisher's device sblind-stamped to lower board, top-edge stained orange. Bookplate to front pastedown. This is a near fine copy, showing just a sliver of sunning to top-edges of boards and spine, else clean and fresh. In a crisp, bright dust jacket which is lightly edgeworn at spinal ends, with a few small abrasions at the transition from the spine to lower panel; it is just about near fine.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Publisher: Alfred Knopf, New York, 1959. First edition, so stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in near fine condition, repaired chip a top front by spine. The dust jacket is not price clipped with a price of $3.50. First issue jacket with only one paragraph on the back flap. Binding is in near fine condition, toning along top edge. Book contents clean throughout. 185 pages. 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory # 17-104. Price: $350. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John.. The Poorhouse Fair.. Knopf., New York, 1959.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Close to fine in a very good+ 'first issue' dust jacket with one paragraph printed on rear DJ. Flap. (Faintly discernable fioxing at edge of rear endpaper, otherwise book is fine. 1"-inch tear at base of rear panel & again at head of front. One short edge nick. Trace of foxing at bottom of rear panel. Light evidence of foxing on inside of DJ. ) Author's FIRST novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in very good, first issue dustwrapper with some rubbing, a tiny nick on the front panel, and a fairly large dampstain visible almost entirely on the inside of the jacket. A presentable copy of the author's first novel, and seldom found thus.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$489.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. First issue of author's first novel and second book. First state dustjacket. 185 pages. A handsome, collectible copy!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards in decorative price-clipped dust jacket designed by Harry Ford; [6],185pp. Very minor wear to jacket extremities, short closed tear to top edge of upper panel with discrete tape repair to verso, some unobtrusive paper flaws to endpapers from previously removed bookplates (?); boards slightly toned and lightly soiled, else a still Very Good and sound copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Updike's first novel.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. Poorhouse Fair. Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. First Issue. Only one paragraph on back flap of dust jacket. Author's first novel. 8vo. Orange cloth and boards stamped in silver. Top page edges stained orange. 186 pages. Tone colored stain of unknow origins on pages 20-21. Nice dust jacket has a half inch and a quarter inch chip near top of spine and several short closed tears near corners. A very nice copy. near Fine/ Very good condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A Knopf, E-72, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf. 1959. 185 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed by John Updike on the FFEP. Laid in with the complimentary slip from John Updike present. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelfwear present. The Poorhouse Fair, John Updikes first novel, was written in 1957 and published in January of 1959. The Poorhouse Fair centers on a New Jersey poor farm's annual fundraiser and the resulting insurrection of the farm's inmates against the institution's establishment. Hailed at the time of its publication as "a rare and beautiful achievement" and "a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. E-72; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 1959. First Edition. This copy is SIGNED by the author on a bookplate pasted on to front free end-paper. Book fine except for some slight fading along edges. DJ near fine, tiny tear at bottom of front reinforced by tape nside DJ, slight rubbing at corners, very slight spotting on flapsand inside DJ. DJ price reads "$3.50." We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$574.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition (so stated) of the author's first collection of storiesâ"sixteen in numberâ"published one year after his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair. 8vo: [10],242,[4]. Publisher's turquoise quarter-bound cloth, chestnut-brown paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover stamped in silver, top edge stained lime-green; first issue dust jacket, priced $3.75, with reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on back panel. Laid in is Knopf's date-of-publication notice. An exemplary example, virtually pristine, square, tight and unread, silver lettering and top stain undiminished, pages fresh and bright. These stories appeared originally in the New Yorker in the order in which they appear here. "Ace in the Hole" prefigures Rabbit, Run in having an ex-high school basketball star now married with a child. "Snowing in Greenwich Village" is the first story to feature the Maples, Joan and Richard, whose stories were later collected in Too Far to Go. "Stylistically, [Updike's] early stories were directly influenced by the New Yorker itself, where they primarily appeared. The two writers most associated with the magazine at this time, J. D. Salinger and John Cheever, exerted particular influence on Updike's style and approach. . . . [S]uch early pieces of marital life as "Snowing in Greenwich Village" evoke Cheever's elegant tales of spousal tension and middle-class comfort. At the same time, Updike was every bit his own writer, even early on, looking for deeper inspiration not in his contemporaries but rather in the European Modernists who immediately preceded him, chiefly James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Henry Green and Vladimir Nabokov. Specifically, Updike's lyrical, baroque prose style, as well as his penchant for complex formal design, can be traced directly back to those Modernist masters, all of whom get name-checked in one way or another in the early work." (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
UPDIKE, JOHN. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. NEW YORK NY ALFRED A KNOPF CO PUB 1959., 1959.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: VG/VG. AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK / SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE BOOK HAS SOME LIGHT WEAR TO THE CORNERS WITH A BIT OF FADING TO THE SPINE PANEL AND RUBBED BUT VISIBLE SPINE TITLES, AND OWNERSHIP NAME STAMPED TO THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SUPPLIED FIRST ISSUE D.J. IS BRIGHT AND UNFADED WITH LIGHTLY WORN CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS, SCATTERED STAINING ALONG THE TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES FROM PRIMATIVE D.J. PROTECTOR, AND TAPE SHADOWS/STAINS TO THE FLAPS' CORNERS. DESPITE FLAWS A NICE PRESENTABLE COPY OF UPDIKE'S ELUSIVE FIRST NOVEL. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, 1959.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 1959. First Edition. This copy is SIGNED by the author. Book fine except for some fading along edges. DJ good except for rubbing on corners, some spotting on front and back inside flap of DJ, slight creasing on top and bottom of spine and upper right corner, and slight wearing on front DJ cover. Book comes in specially made cloth slip cover. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Updike, John. The Same Door. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1959.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 242 pages. First edition, first issue dust jacket with the price of $3.75 and reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on back panel. His third book & first book of short stories. 16 short stories. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a small amount of creasing to the top of the back cover. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959, stated first edition. John Updike was considered to be one of Americas greatest writers in the second half of the twentieth century, as evidenced by the fact that he was only one of three writers that have ever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. A prolific writer Updike published works of poetry, short stories and dozens of Novels, including the well known Rabbit series. The Poorhouse Fair was his very first novel. This book, 185 pages, is in near fine condition in a near fine, price clipped first issue dust jacket, now in a protective mylar wrapper. The only flaw in the book is a red dot on the foredge and the only flaws on the dust jacket is very light wrinkling at the top of the spine, some 10mm, and small 2mm wrinkles by the corners of the spine. Absolutely no fading on the dust jacket or on the top orange stained edge. Thus, an almost flawless copy. Beautiful, bright, square it would be an indispensable item in any Updike collection. Bookseller inventory number 78112.
Seller: Raven & Gryphon Fine Books, Hackett's Cove, NS, Canada
Updike, John. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. Signed. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1959.
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Superb copy of the First Edition of the author's first novel neatly Inscribed in blue ink by John Updike on the front free endpaper: "For Sharon / John Updike". A fine example in 1/4 tan cloth over green paper covered boards, silver and gilt titles to the spine in a fine fresh first issue dustwrapper. 8vo. 185 pp. The book was signed at a 1990 McGill University Reading. A brilliant first novel by this pre-eminent American author.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada