The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

US Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958 is the true first and Updike's first book — his only trade book not published by Knopf. The UK edition is a title-change trap: it appeared as "Hoping for a Hoopoe" (Victor Gollancz, London, 1959) and adds an Author's Note not present in the US edition. The Gollancz book is separately collected as the first English edition but does not precede the Harper issue; a copy catalogued under either title is describing the same work.