RABBIT AT REST - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
by Updike, John
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. The concluding volume in Updike's best-selling Rabbit Angstrom quartet - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, beating out Linda Hogan and Tim O'Brien for the honor. De Bellis & Broomfield A133.c. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.329. Octavo (21cm); marbled paper boards and black cloth backstrip, blocked and titled in dark red and gilt on spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and patterned slipcase; [xii],512,[6]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial wear; slipcase showing some modest external wear; Near Fine.
Synopsis
Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit is Rich. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner the award.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4787
- Title
- RABBIT AT REST - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
- Author
- Updike, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- First Edition
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