The Rabbit Series by Updike, John - 1960

Paperback. Very Good.

Penguin Books, 1978. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- To millions of Americans Rabbit Angstrom is like a member of the family. They have followed him through RABBIT RUN RABBIT REDUX and RABBIT IS RICH. We meet him for the first time in this novel when he is 22 and a salesman in the local department store. Married to the second best sweetheart of his high school years he is the father of a preschool son and husband to an alcoholic wife. The unrelieved squalor and tragedy of their lives remind us that there are such people and that salvation after all is a personal undertaking.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Penguin Books The date of this copy is 1978 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK

First Edition, First Printing (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995). Fine in a fine dust jacket; as new. Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. Scarce thus. The beautiful Everman's Library edition; the first time all four Rabbit novels were published in one volume. Comprising Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest. A wonderful and sharp looking compendium of the four novels following life's ups-and-downs of Updike's now iconic character, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom!

Rabbit, Run, published in 1960, established Updike as one of the major American novelists of his generation. In that first novel, the reader follows three months in the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a 26-year-old former high school basketball player who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and experiences Rabbit's attempts to escape the constraints of his life. In the next three novels in the series Updike takes a comical and retrospective look at the relentless questing life of Rabbit… Read More

Leather Set includes 2 (signed) Rabbit Runs(1 to remove the signed page for Rabbit is Rich to complete a signed set of Franklins) 1 Rabbit Redux(signed)1 Rabbit is Rich(unsigned) very close to size of a Rabbit Run for signature1 Rabbit at Rest(signed)Also there are two unsigned books with connection to the Rabbit. 1. Licks of Love,(unsigned) includes the last sequel "Rabbit Remembered" short story.2. Higher Gossip,(unsigned) pages 460-488 gives insight from John Updike about the Rabbit novels.Higher Gossip is a book club edition and he discusses/answers to some of the burning questions from Updike's view.The photos are HD so download and blow them up to see any defects.I rate all books Very Good and better(most, a lot better).I have a very good collection of Signed books by Updike that are now listed or soon will be. In my Personal collection of Pulitzer Prize winners I will keep a set like this or better for myself.I have been collecting Franklin Library books and believe the true value are under… Read More