Signed limited first edition of the third of the Angstrom series, winner of both the 1982 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.
Fine in a fine jacket, with near fine slipcase.
Price: $400.00
"The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started."
The series that made and maintained Updike's reputation: first, with RABBIT, RUN, introducing the splendors and miseries of the grown-up high-school athlete, his glories behind him and his suburban responsibilities upon him; then the ten-years-after sequel, RABBIT REDUX, in which all the tumult and ferment of a decade arrives tangled and compressed into what even the most stony-hearted and unforgiving of critics must agree is, after all, a novel. The subsequent RABBIT IS RICH won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as did the following and final RABBIT AT REST.
First printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 8'' x 5.25''. Original full gray cloth. In original gold printed jacket (unpriced, as issued). Housed in original black printed slipcase. Rainbow endpapers. 468 pages. One of 350 numbered copies, this #51, signed by Updike on the colophon. Minor fading to slipcase. Else bright and sharp.
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