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Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$23.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1960. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. . . . .

Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$31.75 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Hardcover Book,

Seller: Barnes & Nooyen Books, Spring, TX, U.S.A.

John Updike. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf and by The First Edition Library,, New York:, 1960.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Description: Fine in 1/4 green cloth and blue-gray paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 3/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped, facsimile dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the lower end of rear flap. The book and its dust jacket are contained within a fine tan paper covered slip case with the front and rear panels of the dust jacket reproduced on the slip case. Laid-in at the front of the book is First Edition Library's points of issue information card. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book. 307 pages of text. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint.

Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

John Updike. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Stated first edition; light blue-green cloth covers (sunned) with author's name stamped in silver on front cover; light green spine (sunned) with silver lettering; embossed "Borzoi Books" figure on rear cover; top page ends light green; damp stain to inner front cover and free end page; text block firm; text pages faintly age-toned througout, clean, square, and unmarked; 307 pp.

Seller: JP Books, Bradford, VT, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 307pp. P

Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 307 pp. First and second printing before publicaion. 16 lines of type on front flap and 18 lines on back flap of 1st state DJ. Dark green spine with silver and gold embossed lettering. Slight fading around edges of boards. Even toning throughout the edges of the pages. Price clipped dust jacket has a missing piece at head of spine and chipping at foot. Creasing along edges of jacket. Small smudges in a couple of spots on back panel of jacket. Dust jacket presented in mylar. "The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life" Size: Octavo

Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$94.96 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed

Seller: GoldBooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, 2nd Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.00 price intact). Published by Alfred Knopf, 1960. Octavo. Teal cloth over gray boards stamped in silver. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Previous owner name and stamp on flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edge wear, and small tears. A very good copy of this classic novel by John Updike. 306 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.

Updike, John. RABBIT, RUN. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$110.57 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.05

Seller: BennettBooksLtd, LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$119.97 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Brand New!

Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: pp. 307. 8vo. Green cloth binding to spine. Light shelfwear, minor discolouration to edges, ink inscription to ffep. Dustjacket quite worn and creased, with nicking and tears to edges, now protected with plastic brodart sleeve; very good in good- dustjacket.

Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Updike, John.. Rabbit, Run.. New York Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$200.47 + shipping

Description: 307 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. - Original boards few faded. Some foxing to fore-edges and fly-leaf. Uncliped Jacket with minor light wear. Gewicht (Gramm): 484

Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany

Updike, John. Rabbit Angstrom Series; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Printings. Rabbit, Run is very good in a good jacket with the sixteen line blurb, unclipped ($4.00), generally rubbed and soiled, creased, chips and tears at the edges and particularly the head and foot of the spine. Green cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded along the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward leand, faint green top stain, some tidemarks at the top. The other three are fine in at least near fine jackets, Redux generally toned.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. RABBIT RUN. Knopf, New York,USA, 1960.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition ( stated). First book in the series of novels featuring Rabbit Angstrom. a VERY GOOD+ book with bottom fore edge tips bumped, slight fade to board edges and partial fade to top page edges stain. No writing, bookplates; pages clean and binding tight. First issue VERY GOOD- jacket with 16 line blurb to front panel and $4.00 price present. Tea(?) stain to edge of rear panel near flap fold bleeds through to verso. Does not affect text or end papers. A few small chips to extremities.

Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$330.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is John Updike's first Rabbit book. Front board has some white spots. Mark on bottom edge. D-j soiled and chipped on spine. Faint scratch on front of d-j.

Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, Stated, in First Issue Dust Jacket. Octavo. Decorated dust jacket, gray top edge. Very good, dust jacket not price clipped, general wear to edges, small chips at spine ends, two inch closed tear at bottom edge of front flap, slight soiling to rear panel, pages slightly agetoned.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Pale blue boards with a green cloth backstrip. The spine is stamped in silver and gilt; the front panel, in silver. Blue topstain. 307pps. Stated First Edition. There is a bit of mottling to the topstain and the board edges are faintly faded. Otherwise clean, bright and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The first-issue dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest general edgewear with chipping to the spine-ends (affecting the 'R' in Rabbit) and the white, rear panel is lightly soiled. The original price (4.00) is intact on the front flap. A presentable copy of Updike's classic. ".'Rabbit, Run' is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his -- or any other -- generation. Its hero is Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty -- even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.

Seller: Nooks Of Books , Elkins Park, PA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: This copy is a 'FIRST AND SECOND PRINTINGS BEFORE PUBLICATION' has stated on the copyright page. Unclipped DJ contains 16 line blurb on front flap. Light green cloth spine has gilt embossed lettering and decoration in silver and gold. Light blue paper over boards. Author's name in silver gilt embossed on front cover, publisher's mark blind stamped lower corner of back board. Slight in-turning at head and tail of spine, very little wear. No corner bumping, very little edge wear. Owner's name inked quite small upper edge of fep. Hinges solid, no shadowing. Upper edge of textblock tinted very pale blue. Miniscule spot, indentation upper fifth of fore-edge textblock. Slight dis-coloration upper edge of back endpaper - smudge. Text is clean and tight in binding. DJ unclipped with some wear, rubbing. Mostly at head and foot of spine, flap hinges. Very light fade lower third of spine section. Small chipping at foot, more at head - near "R" in "Rabbit". Darkening at hinge flaps. Author photo, biography on back flap. Tiny 'dot' at edge of back flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition of this literary highspot of the sixties. A solid very good copy in first state dustwrapper with $4.00 flap price and 16 line blurb on the front flap. A few very small chips at spine ends. Color fade at spine is considerably less than often seen. Book states first edition.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. RABBIT, RUN. , 1960.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: UPDIKE, John. RABBIT, RUN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First edition. 307 pp. 8vo., emerald green cloth back, letters stamped in gold and silver gilt to spine, blue-grey paper covered boards, author's name stamped in silver gilt to upper board, publisher's device blindstamped to lower board, top-edge stained light grey. Bookplate to front pastedown. A thin sliver of sunning just at top-edges of boards and spine; two tiny spots to upper board, and a small spot of soiling to fore-edge; nonetheless, the volume is still quite bright and fresh. The dust jacket is moderately edgeworn at spinal ends, with some chipping to crown, and at the top-edge of the upper panel, having a closed tear and some creasing; also, the spine is sunned with a tiny puncture at the lower joint. Overall, this is a very good copy.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, JOHN.. Rabbit, Run. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, 1960.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Fine in a very good, lightly worn dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to a journalist. A prolific author, this novel appears destined to be the work Updike will be best-known for. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run (The First Rabbit Book). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Very good in light blue paper-covered boards stramped in silver with a green cloth spine stamped in silver and gold. With a name and date in ink at the top of the front endpaper. Otherwise, very clean and tight throughout. Bottom right-hand corner bumped. With a touch of sun-fading to the outer edges of the boards. In a very good, first issue dust jacket with the 16-line blurb on the front inside flap and with the price of "$4.00" at the top of the flap. Photo of a young Updike on the rear inside flap. Lightly edge-rubbed along the front fold. With light wear and chipping at the top of the spine ends; with 2 small pinky-sized pieces missing at the bottom of the spine ends. An attractive, collectible copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner. Updike's most famous work is his Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered"), which chronicles Rabbit's life over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. Updike is one of only three authors (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. (Wikipedia) First Edition with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$585.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good minus book in good only dust jacket. Signed by the author on the FFEP. "First and Second Printing Before Publication." Light blue paper covered boards with green cloth covered spine. Silver lettering and graphics on front board panel, silver and gilt lettering with silver graphics on spine. Publisher's logo blind-stamped on the back panel. Board extremities are sunned. Edges at head and tail of board spine are faded. Upper fore-edge corner tips of front and back panels are bumped. Damp stain on upper external page edges, noticeable along the upper text margins on pp. 248-back free end-paper. Shadow transfer stains on front end papers. FFEP has gluten residue along the upper edge and a small ink notation in the upper right corner - see photos. There is tiny dot in the lower margin of page 4, and text pages are lightly age-toned. Text block is sound. Dust jacket is soiled overall including fox-like stains along the upper edges of front and back jacket spines and inside flaps. Significant losses at head of jacket spine and adjacent upper edges of front and back panels; similar loss but to a lesser extent at tail of jacket spine; upper fore-edge corners and adjacent edges; and front fore-edge which has loss in several places along the fold - see photos. All folds are heavily creased. Diagonal crease at upper corner of inside front flap but price is intact. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.

Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960. First Edition is printed on copyright page. Book near fine except for fading at top edges of covers and light wear at edges of spine and corners. DJ very good, chipping at ends of spine and corners. DJ price reads $4.00.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near fine in original boards with slight sunning and very good dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear largely centered on the spine extremities. Previous owner's address laid on the front endpaper. First state of the dust jacket with the sixteen-line unattributed blurb on the front flap. Signed postcard from Updike at a later date laid in.

Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1960.

Price: US$725.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1960 Knopf FIRST edition of Updike's most famous first book of the four-part Harry Angstrom sage. A tipped in signature **SIGNED** is on the first title page. This book is in VG/VG condition. The DJ was restored from its mylar cover which was glued onto the front and rear end pages, leaving a brown residual. Otherwise the interior is very clean and unmarked, though the ffep is missing. The book has all the "points" to make it a bona fide first US edition. The copyright page clearly states "FIRST EDITION." The first state DJ displays the front fold's16 line blurb and its $ .00 price. It is in VG condition with rippling not due to water damage. It is now mylar-wrapped and protected afresh. Rabbit Run is widely recognized by critics as the one of the best works of the 20th century. It was also turned into the 1970 Jack Smight film starring James Caan as Rabbit, Carrie Snodgrass as Janice and Jack Albertson as Marty. Screenwriter Andrew Davies has announced his intention to adapt the film for TV.

Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$738.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First printing. Nice copy that is clean, tight and square. Green cloth spine with pale blue paper covered boards. Neat signature on front endpaper, else very close to fine. One lightly bumped tip. Price intact jacket is clean and bright. First state jacket with 16 line front flap and $4 price. lJacket has very light edgewear at head of spine, else fine. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Edges of the boards a little bumped, near fine in very good, first issue dustwrapper with some short tears and modest overall wear. A nice, presentable copy of a key title, the first book in the Rabbit tetralogy, and probably the author's most sought after title.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in a very good, first issue dustwrapper with some short tears and modest overall wear. A nice, presentable copy of a key title, the first book in the Rabbit tetralogy, and probably the author's most sought after title.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run (The First Rabbit Book). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Very good in light blue paper-covered boards stramped in silver with a green cloth spine stamped in silver and gold. Very clean and tight throughout. With a touch of sun-fading to the outer edges of the boards. In a complete, first issue dust jacket with the 16-line blurb on the front inside flap and with the price of "$4.00" at the top of the flap. Photo of a young Updike on the rear inside flap. With light wear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends and a touch of fading to the horizontal stripes at the bottom of the jacket spine. A handsome, collectible copy. Updike's most famous work is his Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered"), which chronicles Rabbit's life over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. Updike is one of only three authors (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. (Wikipedia) First Edition with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.. Alfred A. Knopf 1960-2000, New York, 1960.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Description: First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. "Updike’s choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, JOHN. Rabbit, run. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$843.75 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 307, [3]; jacket rubbed at extremities and slight soiled, 2 very small chips out at the top of the spine (no loss of lettering) and 1" tear entering from the top of the front panel; very good copy. Updike's fourth book, and the first of the "Rabbit" series.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, 1960.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960. First Edition is printed on copyright page. Book fine except for slight fading along edges and spine. DJ near fine except for rubbing on corners, wearing and creasing on top edge of spine, wearing and chipping on bottom edge of spine, slight fading on covers, slight discoloration on bottom half of spine. DJ price reads "$4.00"

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

John Updike. RABBIT, RUN. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$885.16 + shipping

Description: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Previous owner mark to front endpage. Scuffing to panels and spine. Open tear to lower front panel. Chip to upper front panel, near crown. Closed tear to upper edge of rear panel. Wrinkling to upper rear panel. Wear to crown and heel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York, 1960.

Price: US$959.00 + shipping

Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. FIRST STATE DUSTJACKET WITH 16 LINE BLURB ON FLAP. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY.

Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition stated, first printing. Signed by John Updike on the front free end paper, inscribed to former owner. Very Good, with light edge wear, light fading and light soiling, in a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $4.00 intact and 16 lines of text on the front flap, a bit tattered, with spine panel faded and chipped at the ends, one tape repair made from the verso, and a light tidemark to corner of rear panel lightly affecting the rear board. The first title in Updike's Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, first printing; slight chips primarily to top of spine of dj; attractive copy of Updike'second novel and most famous work Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped, first issue dustwrapper with two short tears, and a touch of fading to the spine. A nice, bright copy of a key title, the first book in the Rabbit tetralogy, and probably the author's most sought after title.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, JOHN. RABBIT, RUN. NEW YORK NY ALFRED A KNOPF CO PUB NOV 2 1960., 1960.

Price: US$1450.00 + shipping

Description: VG/VG. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE/LATER ISSUED D.J. WITH $4.00 PRICE ON D.J. AND RICHARD GILMAN'S 24 LINE BLURB ON THE FRT FLAP BOOK IS NICE BUT THE COLOR OF THE BOARDS AND SPINE IS A BIT FADED WITH SOME SCATTERED SOILING TO THE REAR COVER. D.J HAS A SMALL BIT OF CORNER WEAR WITH SHALLOW CHIPPING AT THE ENDS OF THE SPINE PANEL, SOME LIGHT RUBBING OF THE VERTICAL FOLDS, SOME SCATTERED RUBBING OF THE FRONT PANEL, AND A CREASE TO THE FRONT FLAP. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

John Updike. Rabbit, Run. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: New York: Knopf, 1960. Fine/fine. First edition bound in full tan morocco, the covers onlaid with dark blue leather rectangles and tooled with gilt and blind fillets giving the outline of a baskeball court, the spine lettered in gilt on a circular dark leather label, leather joints, blue fabriano pape doublures and endpapers. Fine, completely fresh, in a custom cloth protective box showing trivial shelfwear. Enclosed receipt from Bayntun shows a charge of 1750 pounds for the binding. This binding is currently featured on Bayntun's website showcase, as illustrative of their best work. A great copy.

Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run -- Signed by John Updike on the Title Page (Signature Only). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$1550.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good with some fading and minor soiling to topstain, and slight shelf wear to boards. A bit of light staining to top edges of last 20 pages, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket ($4.00 price intact) with some rubbing to the extremities. SIGNED BY UPDIKE on the flyleaf. Now housed in a fine custom-made cloth slipcase. An attractive signed copy of this 20th Century high spot.

Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Updike, John. EACH WITH A CARD SIGNED BY UPDIKE LAID IN: RABBIT, RUN (1960); RABBIT REDUX (1971); RABBIT IS RICH (1981); RABBIT AT REST (1990); and the novella "Rabbit Remembered" in LICKS OF LOVE (2000). Knopf 1960 - 2000, New York, 1960.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of each of the four volumes in the "Rabbit" quartet, plus LICKS OF LOVE, a collection of short stories including the sequel novella, "Rabbit Remembered." RABBIT, RUN with 3 x 5" card laid in INSCRIBED "For - - , Best wishes, John Updike"; the remaining volumes with SIGNED cards laid in. Top edge of first volume a little sun faded but otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with professional repair and color touch up to spine ends. Dust jacket on RABBIT IS RICH price-clipped -- otherwise the remaining four volumes are fine in fine dust jackets. A NEST OF RABBITS

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John.. Rabbit, Run.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: 307 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy (a former owner has inked three small numerals on the rear pastedown; and there is a bookplate on the front pastedown); in a very near fine jacket with none of the usual fading to the backstrip.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.. Alfred A. Knopf 1960-2000, New York, 1960.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Description: First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume signed by John Updike. Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. An exceptional signed set. "Updike’s choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John.. [The Rabbit Quartet]. Comprising: Rabbit, Run, 1960; Rabbit Redux, 1971; Rabbit is Rich, 1981; Rabbit at Rest, 1990.. New York Alfred A. Knopf -90, 1960.

Price: US$3025.00 + shipping

Description: First editions, first printings, each signed by the author on the title-page; 4 vols, 8vo; minor spotting to terminal leaves of third vol., overall internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed boards or cloth, dust-jackets, slight edge-wear around spine of first vol., second vol. price-clipped, otherwise all near fine to fine; presented in 2 matching cloth drop-back boxes lettered & ruled in gilt. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page of each of the four volumes. Updike's sweeping epic serves as an oft discomfiting mirror to America through the 1960s, '70s & '80s, chronicling the country's shifting moods & impulses via the prism of poor old Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, an anti-hero of sorts.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$3800.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. One corner slightly bumped, else fine in a nice, near fine first issue dustwrapper with a couple of very small tears and a little rubbing. Signed by Updike. A nice copy of the first book in the Rabbit tetralogy, and probably the author's most sought after title.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

UPDIKE, John.. Rabbit, Run.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, 1960.

Price: US$3898.64 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author to the influential New York publisher: "For Ralph Sylvester John Updike". Sylvester (1934-2018) co-founded the publishing house Sylvester & Orphanos with his partner, the notable literary photographer and book dealer Stathis Orphanos (1940-2018). The two published a signed limited edition of Updike's essay collection Impressions in 1985. Impressions contains 11 essays of Updike's art criticism, some of which had never before been published. The artists and topics Updike discusses in that volume include Vermeer, John Henry Fuseli, Adam and Eve, and childhood. Sylvester & Orphanos published 25 limited editions over a period of almost 30 years, beginning in 1976 with their friend Christopher Isherwood's Christopher and his Kind. In addition, Updike sat for Orphanos, later stating that Orphanos's striking photo portrait of him unveiled "the definitive personality [he] always lacked" (quoted in Catalog, p. 32). Published in the same year that Sylvester and Orphanos met, Rabbit, Run is the first novel in Updike's influential and critically acclaimed Rabbit series. This copy is in the first issue jacket with the 16-line blurb on the front flap. Two later titles in the series, Rabbit is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990), were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Updike one of only four authors to receive the prize multiple times. Sylvester & Orphanos: Catalog of an Exhibit, October-December 1990. Octavo. Original green cloth-backed blue boards, spine lettered in silver and gilt, front cover lettered in silver, publisher's device blind-stamped on rear cover, top edge green. With dust jacket. Sunning to edges, mild offsetting to endpapers, not affecting inscription, contents clean. A near-fine copy in unclipped dust jacket, light sunning to spine, tiny chip at head, slight rubbing and nicks with couple of short closed tears, small splash mark on verso, panels bright, very good overall.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.

Price: US$4250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 307 pages. First edition, first state with the $4.00 price & 16-line blurb on the dust jacket front flap. Signed by Updike on the first page. His 4th book & 2nd novel. The 1st of the 4 Rabbit Angstrom books. Fine book a fine dust jacket with a hint of fading to the lower spine & a touch of rubbing to the top of the spine. A beautiful copy!

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

Updike, John. RABBIT, RUN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Galleys in spiralbound blue wrappers. Narrow Quarto. Galley sheets printed on the rectos only. There is an Alfred A. Knopf label affixed to the front cover giving the proposed price ($4.00) and publication date (October 17, 1960), with a name and a strikethrough of another name in holograph ink in an unknown hand on the upper right corner. This copy has been signed by Updike on the title page. Wrappers lightly creased, else about near fine. Please contact Clouds Hill Books for additional details and an illustrated catalogue of this item.

Seller: Clouds Hill Books, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.