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THE POORHOUSE FAIR

THE POORHOUSE FAIR

THE POORHOUSE FAIR

THE POORHOUSE FAIR

by UPDIKE, JOHN

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LONDON: GOLLANCZ LTD (VICTOR). FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1959. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. 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. .

Synopsis

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Bookseller
JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE POORHOUSE FAIR
Author
UPDIKE, JOHN
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.
Edition
FIRST EDITION
Publisher
GOLLANCZ LTD (VICTOR)
Place of Publication
LONDON
Date Published
PUB 1959
Keywords
NOVEL

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