Five Boyhoods [Signed by Updike]

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket designed by Robert Flynn retaining original price ($3.95); ix,[7],198pp.; five leaves of halftone photographic plates. Moderate wear to jacket margins, closed tear mid-spine panel, corners bumped, dark soil spot affecting bottom fore-edge corner of final two leaves; overall Very Good and sound.

Uncommon group memoir of coming of age at the beginning of the 20th century. Signed by contributor John Updike on front free endpaper.