Franklin Library leather edition of John Updike's "Rabbit Run," a Limited edition. Illustrated by Jerry Pickney, one of the SIGNED 60 series, Personally signed by JOHN UPDIKE, signature protected by onion skin paper, published in 1977. Bound in a scarlet red leather, the book has gold French moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. John Hoyer Updike, who lived from 1932--2009, was an American novelist and short story writer. "Rabbit Run," the first volume in a tetralogy of 'Rabbit' books, examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star from Brewer, Pennsylvania. Harry, now 26,  has a job selling a kitchen gadget named Magi Peeler. He is married to Janice, who was a salesgirl at the store where he once worked, and who is now pregnant. They also have a two-year-old son named Nelson. Harry finds middle-class family life unsatisfying, and, on the spur of the moment, he leaves his family and drives south in an attempt to "escape." He returns and visits his old basketball coach, Marty Tothero and has sex with Ruth Leonard, a part-time prostitute. Harry and Ruth begin a two-month sexual affair and he soon moves into her apartment. During this time, Janice moves back into her parents' house and the local Episcopal priest, Jack Eccles, befriends Harry in a futile attempt to get him to reconcile with his wife. Nonetheless, Harry remains with Ruth until the night he learns that she had a fling with his high school nemesis, Ronnie Harrison. Harry returns to his wife when their baby drowns in a bath tub. Ruth becomes pregnant, has an abortion when she learns, he is unwilling to divorce Janice.  342 pages. I offer Combined shipping.