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Updike, John. The poorhouse fair.. Victor Gollancz, London, 1959.

Price: US$29.53 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 185 pages G/FR. Good book in fair price-clipped dust jacket with sunning, a few small scribbles and a small chip, bookseller stamp and an erasure mark on free front endpaper, light foxing to page edges, small stain on top page edges. Dust jacket protected by a removable plastic cover.

Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia

John Updike. Hoping for a Hoopoe. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "HOPING FOR A HOOPOE" by John Updike. 1959 1st UK Edition; London; Victor Gollancz Ltd. The book comes with its original, un-clipped dust jacket. First published as "The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures" in the United States, this is the first British edition of Updike's first book. Condition: Clean covers and spine with no stains; sharp corners. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. The text pages are in excellent condition - clean and white with no writing, stains, foxing or tears. Name/address stamped in ink at the lower-right corner of the rear pastedown. Three pages have a crease at the upper-outer corners. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the price showing on the front flap; some light soiling to the front and back covers; clean flaps; small tears at the spine heads; larger 3" tear between starting at the bottom between the front cover and front flap that has been repaired on the back-side with clear tape. Overall in very good condition.

Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.

Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1959.

Price: US$58.51 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK edition. Copyright page is 1958. 5 x 7¾" pp. [9] +185. Very good in brown cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine. Firm and tight, contents clean and bright with no marks, stains, foxing, labels or inscriptions. No dustwrapper. Updike's first novel.

Seller: Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair. U.K / Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959.

Price: US$78.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The authors first novel. The story is set around the residents of the Diamond County Home for the Aged prepare for their annual fair, a summer celebration at which they sell their crafts and produce to the people of the nearby town. The fair is at first rained out, and the young prefect, Conner, turns the "inmates" against him by arguing with the noble Hook (94 years old, a former teacher with strong religious beliefs). After the rain clears, some residents fling small stones at Conner. The novel examines the political and religious dialectics that exist among its characters and their respective generations. / This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in fair condition-the dustjacket is 'price-clipped' & it is ripped along the edges & has small pieces missing from it / the book is lightly foxed. OTHER WISE ITS A GOOD READABLE COPY. (185 pages).

Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom

John Updike. The Poorhouse Fair. Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd. London 1959., 1959.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Description: hardcover, first British edition, 1959, Book is Ex Libris,of the Lancashire County Library, U.K., only checked out nine times.Condition of book very good.A bright very good dust jacket not price clipped, no library markings to jacket, a clean cut(no paper missing) four and a half inches long across the front of cover,above the author's name.The first two American reviews are printed on the back of the jacket. Author's first novel.

Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Poorhouse Fair. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1959.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED, without inscription, by John Updike on a non publisher's tipped in page. The volume is bumped on the spine crown and top corners. The endpapers and a few others have a waviness emanating from the spine, as if pinched during the binding process. The lightly soiled, unclipped, dust jacket, protected in a sleeve, is chipped at the spine ends and corners (to a maximum depth of 1/8" at the top front joint), and the spine is gently sun washed.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

JOHN UPDIKE.. The Poorhouse Fair. A novel.. Victor Gollancz, London, 1959.

Price: US$390.05 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 185pp. Pink pebbled cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small smudge to the front free endpaper, and three tiny instances of very light miscellaneous soiling to the fore edge. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat tanned at the spine panel with five tiny enclosed areas of loss, and a little rubbed at extremities with two tiny closed tears and several further slivers of loss. The author's second book and first novel - extremely elusive in this UK edition (which was issued the same year as the more common US edition).

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

UPDIKE, JOHN. THE POORHOUSE FAIR. LONDON GOLLANCZ LTD (VICTOR) PUB 1959., 1959.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Description: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS MODEST SOIL TO THE SPINE, A COUPLE OF TINY CHIPS AT THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL, SOME VERY FAINT DAMPING TO THE REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION OF UPDIKE'S ELUSIVE FIRST NOVEL. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Victor Gollancz, London, 1959.

Price: US$595.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 185 pages. First English edition, first printing. His second book and first novel. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in the same year. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

Updike, John. The Poorhouse Fair. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1959.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. John Updike (1932-2009) attracts passionate readers who either love him or loathe him, but must acknowledge him as a major writer of the Twentieth Century. This is his first novel, covering one day's time in an almshouse. Here is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition., an uncommon title. Orange cloth-covered boards with titling on the spine in gilt. Clean text; 185 pages. This copy has been SIGNED by Updike on the Title Page. There is typical English spotting, confined to the front and rear endpapers and the page ends. The dustwrapper is unclipped. The spine has darkened; minor chips to the corners of the front panel and the head of the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.