The Poorhouse Fair by Updike, John - 1959

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1959. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 5000 copies printed. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's large ink stamped name stamp on the front endpaper (looks to be hand designed). The dust jacket has a couple of tiny edge nicks and beginning tears, along with light edge wear and nicking to the spine ends. This is a first issue dust jacket with only one paragraph on the rear inside flap. "The Poorhouse Fair concerns the lives of a handful of marvelously eccentric and understandable people in a poorhouse on the undulating plains of central New Jersey." This is the author's second book and first book of fiction. .