NMLP P-044467 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

John Updike · Harper & Brothers, New York · 1958

No book-club issue is documented for this title in the sources consulted — an unlikely candidate, being a slim collection of light verse. The live traps are the 1959 Gollancz retitling and later Harper printings, which drop the "First Edition" statement and the B-H code.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-044467 for "The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures" by John Updike (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044467, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).