Rabbit Redux - Signed Limited Franklin Edition

Updike, John

Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1981

About this Item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Signed, limited edition. Signed by Updike on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Accompanied by the quite scarce accompanying twenty-two page "Notes From the Editors" commentary, laid in. Illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Octavo, 454 pp. As New; immaculate and pristine. See scans. Tissue guard over signature has faint perimeter toning.Franklin's lavish leather binding of the Signed, Limited Edition of Updike's 1971 second "Rabbit" novel in the extended series of the fictional Everyman-tale of Harry Angstrom. Artist Jerry Pinkney echoes the mood in nice detail. Rich deep caramel topgrain leather binding, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, rust moire endpapers, and a matching satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22 karat; the paper is 60-pound Franklin Library Olde Style Cream; text set in 11-point Times Roman typeface. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless, and protectively archived since arrival; page-marker has in fact never been moved. With the author's newly-contributed "A Special Message to Subscribers from John Updike" prefacing the novel, and the seldom-retained "Notes from the Editors" which arrived with original shipments of the piece. Please see all scans. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a market copy to read. l-frnkln3.

Seller Inventory # 60294

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rabbit Redux - Signed Limited Franklin Edition
• Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics of Fiction From All Eras
  • Fine and Decorative Bindings
  • Literary & Literary Journals