rabbit run redux rich rest von updike john (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. First edition thus. INSCRIBED. 1519pp. Thick octavo [21 cm] Red and black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The text block is cracked at the title page. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. Rabbit Run was the book that established John Updike as a major novelist.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition thus. With an introduction by the author. Thick octavo. 1,519pp. Page edges modestly soiled, else fine in near fine lightly age-toned dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4 volumes. Full dark brown leather with gilt lettering and embellishments. All edges gilt, silk moire endpapers and bookmark. Minor shelf wear may be present due to storage. Pages/boards clean.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A Fine collection of Updike's Rabbit series in the Franklin Deluxe leather bindings. Run, Redux and Rest are all signed, Rich is not (all as issued). Witches of Eastwick also signed as issued. All in mint condition. No extra postage to that quoted for international shipping. Signed by Author.

First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. "Updike's choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.

First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume signed by John Updike. Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. An exceptional signed set. "Updike's choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run, was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career" (Books of the Century, 450). "Taken together, this quartet of novels has given its readers a wonderfully vivid portrait of one Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom . . . The books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life . . . from the somnolent 50s . . . into the uncertainties of the 80s" (The New York Times). Rabbit, Run was the basis for the 1970 film directed by Jack Smight starring James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.

First editions, first printings; 4 vols, 8vo, each signed by the author on the title-page; minor spotting to terminal leaves of third vol., overall internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed boards or cloth, dust-jackets, slight edge-wear around spine of first vol., second vol. price-clipped, otherwise all near fine to fine; presented in 2 matching cloth drop-back boxes lettered & ruled in gilt. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page of each of the four volumes. Updike's sweeping epic serves as an oft discomfiting mirror to America through the 1960s, '70s & '80s, chronicling the country's shifting moods & impulses via the prism of poor old Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, an anti-hero of sorts.

First editions of "probably the most famous tetralogy in contemporary fiction" (Literary Hub). Time named Rabbit, Run as one of the best English-language novels between 1923 and 200 and Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Updike one of only four authors to receive the prize multiple times. Rabbit, Run is in the first issue jacket with the 16-line blurb on the front flap. The novel was adapted into a 1970 film starring James Caan. "The First Reviews of John Updike's 'Rabbit' Novels", Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2019, accessible online. Four works, octavo. Run in original blue boards, green cloth backstrip lettered in gilt and silver, front cover lettered in silver, rear cover with publisher's device in blind, top edge green; Redux, Rich, and Rest in original red, yellow, or blue cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt or silver, rear covers with publisher's device in blind, top edges red or purple. With dust jackets. Redux with ownership signatures on front free endpaper, one of which sometime partially removed with correction fluid. Extremities gently rubbed and toned, spine ends a little bumped, marks to edges; jackets unclipped, spines faded, extremities of Run and Redux creased and nicked, panels of same a little soiled, neat archival tape repair to Run and Rich: a very good set in like jackets.