NY, Knopf, 1985. A collection of poetry. Inscribed by the author: "For Ted Hoagland/ with high regard and warm regards/ John." Hoagland and Updike were classmates at Harvard, in the class of 1954, and Hoagland had more early success publishing than Updike did: Hoagland's first novel was published in 1956 and won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Updike's first book came out two years later, a collection of poems, and it wasn't until his novel Rabbit, Run, in 1960, that he began to have the kind of critical and commercial success that he then enjoyed for the rest of his life. Laid into this book is a one-page program for a 2009 American Academy of Arts and Letters members meeting, which lists a tribute to John Updike, who died in January of 2009. The program is folded in fourths; the book has previously dampened boards and is very good in a fine dust jacket. [#033493] SOLD