[Rarebooks] FS: John Updike QUERY

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  Was  $250   Now  $150

UPDIKE, John. QUERY. n.p.: Albondocani Press, (1974). First Edition. 
Stiff card covers with drawing by Robert Dunn. First issue with the 
cover drawing printed upside-down, one of only 75 copies thus of an 
intended 400 copies total, the remainder said by the publisher to have 
been destroyed, but at least a dozen or more survived. This poem by 
Updike was printed as a holiday greeting from Albondocani Press and 
Ampersand Books, with the errata statement from the publisher still 
tipped in. Also with a printed statement from the publisher about the 
publishing history of the piece and offering copies of the suppressed 
first issue at one hundred dollars. Fine in envelope. (#010015)        
$150.00
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