John Updike

The Rabbit Quartet Signed First Editions

Alfred A. Knopf

1960 - 1990

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Signed, first editions of Updike's Rabbit books.

  • Sold as a set of 4 volumes.
  • John Updike (American).
  • Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest.
  • New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960; 1971; 1981 & 1990.
  • Octavos.
  • Signed by Updike on each title page. 
  • Bound in the publisher's cloth-backed boards, in dust jackets, presented in two matching cloth drop-back boxes lettered and 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...

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Minor spotting to terminal leaves of the third volume.

Slight edge-wear around spine of first volume, second volume price-clipped.

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First Edition, Signed, Dust Jacket

Language

English

Subject

Autographed and Signed Material, Fiction, Modern first editions, Sets, Novels, American Literature, Literature

SKU

D9V6C

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