The Poorhouse Fair (Joan Didion's copy)
NY: Knopf, 1959. First edition. Hardcover.
Fifth printing. An association copy, not signed but from the library of Joan Didion, renown author of such works as The Year of Magical Thinking, Play It as It Lays, The White Album, and Slouching Toward Bethlehem. A bookplate affirming this provenance is on the front free endpaper. Updike's second book and first novel. Blue-gray paper boards with an auburn cloth spine with silver lettering; orange top stain. Very good with sunning to board edges, a bump to lower front corner, and smidge of ink at the lower edge of the front free endpaper where a price stamp on the jacket flap has rubbed off. In a very good, price-clipped jacket with sunning to spine, rubbing to outer edge of the front flap fold, and slight loss to spine tails
. Very good / Very good. Item #2279Price: $475.00 save 5% $451.25