[SIGNED] THE CARPENTERED HEN AND OTHER TAME CREAURES

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Reprint Edition. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy cloth with titling in gold, and with dustjacket; xvii, [2], 3-84 pages; there is a very faint erasure mark on the endpaper; this copy is signed by John Updike (in green ink?) on the endpaper; the dustjacket has the merest trace of sunning to the spine; it has not been price-clipped.~~This is the First Knopf Edition, a re-issue of Mr. Updike first published book, originally publihsed in 1958.~~An attractive signed copy of the first printing of the re-issue. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.