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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Edition (so stated) of the author's first collection of stories—sixteen in number—published one year after his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair. 8vo: [10],242,[4]. Publisher's turquoise quarter-bound cloth, chestnut-brown paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover stamped in silver, top edge stained lime-green; first issue dust jacket, priced $3.75, with reviews for The Poorhouse Fair on back panel. Laid in is Knopf's date-of-publication notice. An exemplary example, virtually pristine, square, tight and unread, silver lettering and top stain undiminished, pages fresh and bright. These stories appeared originally in the New Yorker in the order in which they appear here. "Ace in the Hole" prefigures Rabbit, Run in having an ex-high school basketball star now married with a child. "Snowing in Greenwich Village" is the first story to feature the Maples, Joan and Richard, whose stories were later collected in Too Far to… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Edition (so stated) of the author's first book, a collection of light verse. 8vo: viii,[4],82pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; off-white paper-covered boards stamped in gold; first issue price-clipped dust jacket, with "two small children" (later corrected to "four") on rear flap. About Fine (faint offsetting to end papers); about Fine jacket (touch of soiling to back panel; spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed). Roberts A1a. In the mid-Fifties, after work as a "Talk of the Town" reporter at the New Yorker, Updike composed these remarkable poems—intellectual, witty pieces on the absurdities of modern life. The collection's seventh poem, "Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles Are Cracked and Crooked," is carved in full on the reverse of the writer's gravestone. "The old men say / young men in gray / hung this thread across our plains / acres and acres ago. / But we, the… Read More

London: André Deutsch, 1961. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A stunning First Impression (unread and virtually pristine) of the author's second novel (after The Poorhouse Fair), the first installment in the Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series. Crown 8vo (196 x 130mm): [8],307,[3]pp. Publisher's medium brown cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold; later state variant dust jacket (not noted by De Bellis & Broomfield), illustrated by Frances Corby and priced 18s. Cover tips bumped, else Fine. De Bellis & Broomfield A4.b.1. First published the previous year in New York, Rabbit, Run gives voice to the many influences that shaped Updike's literary approach, "from its Joycean use of internal monologue to the protagonist's status as a Kierkegaardian "Knight of Faith". The novel focuses on a 23-year-old former high school basketball star named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who, upon returning home one day after losing his job, decides on impulse to abandon his pregnant wife and their… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1965. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition. A Fine copy (save for a very sweet inscription in a lovely hand), quarter-bound in publisher's green cloth over green boards, with silver and gilt lettering and a pink top stain, in a bright, Near Fine (nicks to spine ends; two closed 1/4-inch tears on front panel) first-state dust jacket that is price-clipped. The author's fourth novel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.