Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book, top edge dust-soiled, fore and bottom edge foxed, end pages damp-stained; good dust jacket, spine soiled, spine
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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Synopsis
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, Run is perhaps the most sought-after title written by Updike.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1705
- Title
- Rabbit, Run
- Author
- John Updike
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Kenneth Breese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated dust jacket, 307 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, top edge dust-soiled, fore and bottom edge foxed, end pages damp-stained; good dust jacket, spine soiled, spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- John Updike, Rabbit, Rabbit Run, Run
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....