NMLP P-044462 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

John Updike · Harper & Brothers, New York · 1958

The first printing states "First Edition" on the copyright page AND carries the Harper letter code "B-H" — B = February, H = 1958 in Harper's month/year code table — so both the statement and the code must be present

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044462 for "The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures" by John Updike (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044462, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).