Notes on Updike's Poorhouse Fair

First edition points for Poorhouse Fair include all of the following (in addition to the points listed below):

  • Running Torchbearer logo on dust jacket front panel
  • Gray (NOT tan) Kent endpapers
  • Back-of-book catalog that does NOT include G93 Parodies

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     11

First inverse DJ number:     [ none ]

First DJ flap price:        $2.45

Dates in print:     1965 - 1970

Toledano number:    357.1

GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?            yes

Intro author:     Foreword by the title author for the ML edition

Genre:     Novel

Original language:      English

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano Pete Chocheles Barry Neavill
John Krygier

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