At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.The first book in John Updike's award-winning 'Rabbit' series, with an afterword by the author Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. It is bright and clean with slight chipping at extremities, $2.95 price present on inside flap. Book is NEAR FINE - binding strong and tight with slightest of shelf wear, gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. The book is bound in black cloth type 14 binding with Fujita end papers and a great pictorial dust jacket. First Modern Library Edition is stated but this is not a first.

First printed by The Modern Library in 1965, this is a 1969 reprint.

MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET The Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit, Run by John Updike. Unclipped dust jacket ($2.45) also in great shape, though with small scuff to front panel, a little rubbing and light chafing to spine ends in removable archival mylar protector. An about-Fine copy: bright, unmarked and tightly-bound. In Toledano spine 11 / green cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling & torchbearer / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style k, verso blank. Volume wrapped in eye-catching green, red and white jacket. 'Rabbit, Run' (1959) is the first of several Updike novels featuring his Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom character. 'The Poorhouse Fair,' the author's first novel (1957), is set twenty years into the future and is the story of residents an old-age home. Two novels by John Updike (1932-2009) in a single volume.

Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1965 (confirmed by list of ML titles at rear of book).

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