Rabbit Is Rich [Inscribed]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [viii],467,[5]pp. Inscribed by Updike on the front endpaper to former New York City economic development administrator Alfred Eisenpreis: "For Alfred / Best wishes / John Updike." Slight forward lean, light wear to spine ends, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $13.95), with light wear to extremities, and a short tear at base of spine; Very Good+. Attractive copy of the third novel in Updike's Rabbit Angstrom quartet, winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.