Burnside Rare Books

London: Victor Gollancz, 1959.

First British edition. Signed by John Updike on front free endpaper. [xii], 82 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in dust jacket with light rubbing, tiny closed tear in the top of the front panel, else Fine. Updike's first work of poetry, published in the US as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures, with an extra "Author's Note." Item #140942334