Buy this book on-line JOHN UPDIKE : Hoping for a Hoopoe. PoemsGollancz, London, 1959
The first English edition (first printing) of the author's first book, which was published in the US a year earlier under the title 'The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures'. Slim 8vo. 82pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled and with the merest hint of rubbing to one or two extremities. Fifty-four poems plus the twenty-six part verse 'A Cheerful Alphabet of Pleasant Objects'.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOHN UPDIKE : Hoping for a Hoopoe. Poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, atlases, livres d'occasion, livres rares and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |