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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. 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 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. 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.
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.
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 - SIGNED by the Author. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
Price: US$2251.63 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards over turquoise cloth covered spine. In the original first state dust jacket, with sixteen line blurb to the front flap. The jacket is un-clipped and correctly priced $4.00. SIGNED by the author in blue pen to the front endpaper. The first part of Updike's defining work, the rich and extraordinary portrait of the life an ordinary American man, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom - a former high-school basketball star - from his twenties to his sixties, against the backdrop of major world events and covering most of the second half of the twentieth century. Near Fine condition book, clean and unmarked inside (except by the author), edges of boards faded as usually found; in a Near Fine jacket which has only a hint of fading to the spine and a little edge wear. Lovely copy of a highlight of 20th century American writing.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
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. "Updikes 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.
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$3859.94 + 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.