Author: UPDIKE, John
Title: Query
Description: n.p. Albondocani Press, (1974). First Edition. Softcover. 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 .

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