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Vintage 1971 Rabbit Redux John Updike HC 1st Ed Dust Jacket Novel Knopf USA
Brand/Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Borzoi Books hardcover first edition of Rabbit Redux by John Updike, published in English in 1971 in New York and manufactured in the United States of America.
Title and subject: Modern American literary novel, the second volume in Updike's Rabbit Angstrom sequence, following former basketball star Harry Rabbit Angstrom through the political and cultural upheavals of late 1960s suburban Pennsylvania.
Format and design: Hardback volume in red cloth boards issued with an Alfred A. Knopf dust jacket designed with alternating red and blue horizontal stripes around a central black title panel and a moon motif at the upper right. Interior is printed in black ink on cream stock in a clear serif typeface, with a publisher's blue topstain on the upper textblock edge.
Structure and contents: Front matter includes title page, copyright page identifying this as a Borzoi Book first edition, and a contents page dividing the narrative into four parts titled POP/MOM/MOON, JILL, SKEETER, and MIM, followed by the continuous prose narrative.
Publication details and audience: Copyright 1971 by John Updike; published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, with simultaneous Canadian distribution noted on the copyright page. ISBN: 0-394-47349-2. Intended for adult readers and collectors of modern and contemporary American fiction, particularly those assembling the complete Rabbit Angstrom novels or Knopf first editions.
Condition: Red cloth boards are straight with secure hinges and light rubbing at the spine ends and corners. Original Knopf dust jacket is present with a chip and short tears at the crown of the spine, minor edge and corner wear, and a few small spots and faint handling marks on the mostly white rear panel. Top edge blue publisher's stain shows mild rubbing and a small darker mark near the fore edge; outer page edges display even age toning with one faint smudge visible in the fore-edge view. Interior pages examined are securely bound and legible, with typical age toning and no writing, underlining, or remainder marks on the sample pages shown. Listing includes this 1971 Alfred A. Knopf first edition hardcover of Rabbit Redux with its original dust jacket only; no slipcase or supplemental materials are included.
