RABBIT RUN 1960 John Updike *TRUE 1ST/1ST/DJ* NICE N/R!

1960.  RABBIT RUN.

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Highly-acclaimed author's LITERARY HIGHSPOT AND VERY EARLY WORK... ONLY HIS 2ND NOVEL (and published 49 years ago; quite the prolific literary career!).  FRESH, NICE TITLE, STATED 1ST EDITION, UNREAD W/VERY FINE TEXTBLOCK... In PRICED $4 1ST-ISSUE DJ. 

Knopf, NY:  1960.  

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JOHN UPDIKE.

  John Updike born 1932, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He wrote more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism.  Since writing Rabbit, Run, Updike has written three other novels about Rabbit, at approximately ten-year intervals: Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990).  Rabbit Angstrom has become Updike's most well-known character, and Rabbit, Run is his most renowned, sought-after title. He has won numerous awards and honors and is widely regarded as one of America's great novelists.

• His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.
• AN AMERICAN LITERARY LEGEND.   He passed away, of course, in January 2009.

His second novel, which introduced Rabbit Angstrom and began the sequence of novels that will likely stand as Updike's major work, having won, collectively, virtually every major literary award given in the U.S., some of them twice.   Written, Updike has said in response to Jack Kerouac's On the Road, this title tries to depict "what happens when a young American family man goes on the road – the people left behind get hurt."  Remarkably, the first book in a series of four, two of which won Pulitzer Prizes.  A controversial title, having been banned in places, w/echos of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

RABBIT RUN.

"Brilliant and poignant...By his compassion, clarity of insight and crystal-bright prose, he makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own."
--The Washington Post

PUBLISHED:  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960.  1ST/STATED 1ST/1ST PRINTING... in PRICED $4.00 1ST-ISSUE DJ.  ALL POINTS.

   Set in Brewer, Pennsylvania, a fictional counterpart of the real-life city of Reading, Rabbit, Run examines the experiences of a young man who is trapped in an unfulfilling life and his equally unfulfilling attempts to leave his family and find a new life.   Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back....

BOOK DJ DETAILS/CONDITION:    SCARCE TO MARKET, HIGHLY-COLLECTIBLE LITERARY HIGHSPOT.   ATTRACTIVELY-PRESENTING TITLE/CONDITION -- in COLORFUL 1st Printing Priced $4.00 1st-Issue (16-Blurb)DJ.  FAMED AUTHOR'S MOST FAMED WORK!  8vo.  307pp. Top edge green.  Appears unread... LEAVE ARE CLEAN AND CRISP **VERY FINE**   Quarter-bound (ORIGINAL PUBLISHER; NOT REBOUND) finely woven-green cloth over light blue vertically ribbed boards--with silver and gilt lettering to the spine and the author's name stamped in silver front. NY. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, 1960. First Edition. With "First Edition" stated on the copyright page. The first state, with 16-line blurb on front flap.  1ST/1ST/DJ.  Book itself w/trace handling/shelving wear; light sunning primarily several edges, and rear upper board corner/upper outside spine corner.  Book *is& clean; bright; square; straight; tight; etc.   HINGES GREAT; textblock VERY FINE.   In ITS ORIGINAL colorful **first-state** dustjacket... with the original price of $4.00 at the top of the inside front flap.  DJ wear includes a few folds and small rubbed spots; sunning (flaps unsunned); light edgewear spine ends, upper panel edges.  N.b., approx. 1" sq. of upper spine is restored (i.e., not original) and corresponds w/book's underlying sunned area -- see scan.  PRICED $4.00.  Several small closed tears reinforced w/archival invisible tape verso.  Green/black/yellow/white and blue priced 1st State DJ *is* colorful; clean, crisp; etc.  PROTECTED W/BRODART ARCHIVAL SLEEVE.

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