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Verse by John Updike
The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures; Telephone Poles and other poems
Crest Book 1st printing Feb 1965
Paperback
4.25 x 7.1 inches, 175 pages

Updike published eight volumes of poetry over his career, including his first book The Carpentered Hen (1958), and one of his last, the posthumous Endpoint (2009). The New Yorker published excerpts of Endpoint in its March 16, 2009 issue. Much of Updike's poetical output was recollected in Knopf's Collected Poems (1993). He wrote that "I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form." The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity". His poetry has been praised for its engagement with "a variety of forms and topics", its "wit and precision", and for its… Read More

Crest, Fawcett Publications Inc., 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Used Good. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Crerst Book, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 175 pages. "This special Crest edition of VERSE represents the first appearance of his collected poetry in a single volume, and contains complete the two volumes originally published as The Carpentered Hen and Telephone Poles." Second Crest printing. Preceding the title page is Updike's eight-line verse foreword to the Crest edtion. Mass-market paperback, red-tinted edges faded and faintly foxed, light soil and tiny loss spots on back wrap, gentle vertical fold in front wrap about 1" from edge and extending through page 32. Pages clean and unmarked.

Fawcett, 1965. First edition, first printing. Good reading copy wraps. Small snip from bottom front cover and inside first flyleaf which bothers none of the text. Excellent reading copy in good condition

Fawcett World Library. Good+. 1965. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Fawcett World Library, 1965. First edition. Near fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. First printing

Knopf, 1963. First edition. With Dennis Stock photograph on back cover. Good ex-library in like dustjacket looking for a new library

London UK: Andre Deutsch, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. 66 poems. spine faded. light spots on covers. ; 5 1/8 x 8 1/8

Knopf, 1963. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Fawcett World Library. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Bookplate inside. Spine and front hinge cracked. (Poetry, Poems)

Knopf, 1964. Hardback in near fine condition with a very good plus dust jacket. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First published September 16 of 1963, this copy is the fourth printing published in August of 1965. Very slight wear/age. Overall a tight and very clean copy. Dust jacket is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve.. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Alfred A Knopf, 1963. 84pp. Brown cloth spine with blue boards, DJ has light rubbing along edges, small chips upper spine edge, large chip upper front cover, small tear lower back cover, First Edition, Collection of poems by John Updike, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963., 1963.. Very good. - Octavo, light blue boards backed with brown cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed & chipped with the spine slightly sunned. The edges of the rear panel are darkened & there are short tears to its top edge with a piece out. viii, [i], 83 & [2] pages plus colophon. There is light soiling to pages 82 and 83, else near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.

Greenwich, Connecticut: Crest, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Near fine with bottom corner creased. A Crest Book, T787.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Gift inscription, else near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with a few small chips and modest toning. Author's second collection of poetry.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fourth printing. Faint offsetting on the endleaves, else fine, in a near fine dust jacket, with a couple of small nicks on the edges and a slightly sunned spine.

Knopf, 1963-08-12. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.5394 in x 8.2795 in x 5.3386 in. Unread. Sunned DJ with shelf wear to edges.