RABBIT IS RICH

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First printing. Fine in a fine jacket, with near fine slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of the third of the Angstrom series, winner of both the 1982 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. The series that made and maintained Updike's reputation: first, with RABBIT, RUN, introducing the splendors and miseries of the grown-up high-school athlete, his glories behind him and his suburban responsibilities upon him; then the ten-years-after sequel, RABBIT REDUX, in which all the tumult and ferment of a decade arrives tangled and compressed into what even the most stony-hearted and unforgiving of critics must agree is, after all, a novel. The subsequent RABBIT IS RICH won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as did the following and final RABBIT AT REST. 8'' x 5.25''. Original full gray cloth. In original gold printed jacket (unpriced, as issued). Housed in original black printed slipcase. Rainbow endpapers. 468 pages. One of 350 numbered copies, this #51, signed by Updike on the colophon. Minor fading to slipcase. Else bright and sharp.