
The Robert Stempfel Jr. Collection of John Updike materials is on display in Special Collections at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library through August. The exhibit includes first editions of classic Updike books and ephemeral items like small-press editions of his stories created in limited numbers and signed by the author, as well as poetry broadsides such as this one, titled “Iowa.”
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