Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Rabbit, Run, written by John Updike and first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960, follows a 26-year-old former high school basketball player nicknamed “Rabbit.” Imprisoned in a tedious job and a loveless marriage, Rabbit attempts to find freedom from his constrained middle-class lifestyle. The novel was republished in a 1963 Penguin Edition, which was the first to include more sexually risque passages cut by Knopf in the first edition. The first of the 'Rabbit Tetralogy',Rabbit, Runis perhaps the most sought-after title written by Updike.
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First edition identification
First published by Knopf, New York in 1960. Only 10,000 copies were printed of the first edition. The original first edition dust jacket has a $4.00 price stamp and an unattributed, 16-line blurb on the front flap. Later editions had 24 lines attributed to Richard Gilman.
Other Collectable or Notable Editions
1963 Penguin Edition--first edition to include “sexually explicit passages” cut by Knopf in the first edition.
