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Published by Vintage, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679752501ISBN 13: 9780679752509
Seller: Goodwill Books, Hillsboro, OR, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Signs of wear and consistent use.
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Published by Pocket Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 0671442589ISBN 13: 9780671442583
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Published by Pocket, 1978
ISBN 10: 0671819798ISBN 13: 9780671819798
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.36.
Published by Pocket, 1979
ISBN 10: 0671834606ISBN 13: 9780671834609
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Bantam
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.35.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 248 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy! Copy shows heavy overall wear and use. Pen markings on last page. Front cover detached from spine. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text.
Published by Library of America, 2019
ISBN 10: 1598536451ISBN 13: 9781598536454
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Library of America, 2019
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. Library of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70sJoan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first time. Collected in this first volume are Didion's five iconic books from the 1960s and 1970s: Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, and The White Album. Whether writing about countercultural San Francisco, the Las Vegas wedding industry, Lucille Miller, Charles Manson, or the shopping mall, Didion achieves a wonderful negative sublimity without condemning her subjects or condescending to her readers. Chiefly about California, these books display Didion's genius for finding exactly the right language and tone to capture America's broken twilight landscape at a moment of headlong conflict and change.
Published by Il Saggiatore, 2016
ISBN 10: 884282237XISBN 13: 9788842822370
Seller: libreriauniversitaria.it, Occhiobello, RO, Italy
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Condition: NEW.
Condition: fine. 1978, 248pp, pocket, een hoekje van de kaft is beschadigd (achterzijde).
Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1979
Seller: Taipan Books, Inglewood, WA, Australia
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 223pp. First published in 1963. This copy is from the first Penguin printing. Author photo on back cover. Cover photograph by George Hall. Pages are age-tanned. Edge & corner wear. Creasing and marking to lower corner area of back cover.
Published by Penguin, London, 1979
Seller: ballinilara investments, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback. A very good copy, digital photos available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. First printing of Didion's first novel. Bound in dark teal blue cloth with title embossed in white along spine. White stains along tail end of spine and bottom edges of both boards; otherwise condition is VG. Spine ends are softened, corners gently rubbed. Binding is tight and straight. Edge wear to a thin portion of text block along top edge; all text block edges are clean and bright. No markings to text. Dust jacket shows minor edge wear, shelf rubbing, and a semi-circular closed tear on rear panel. DJ in a mylar cover. Additional photos upon request. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.
first edition, 1963. scarce in jacket. the author's debut novel and first book is a portrait of a marriage and an insight into the history of california. everett mcclellan and his wife, lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, who encounter a "tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience." new york: ivan obolensky, inc. hardcover. bound in cloth-coverd boards. 5.75 x 8.6". 264 pages. book condition: ex library. notable shelfwear. missing front free endpaper. good +. jacket condition: unclipped ($4.50). very good +.
Published by Ivan Obolensky, Inc. New York, 1963
Seller: The Lost Bookstore, Spartanburg, SC, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy first edition in a very good dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. This is the first printing of Joan Didion's first novel. Dust jacket is not price clipped but is worn with a chip and creases along both edges. The text block has some staining.Title and half title pages are ghosted and browned.Cloth boards show wear along the edges. The debut book of Didion's storied career.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1964
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just some light pushing at the spine tips. Free from inscriptions. The black top-stain remains vibrant. A little light spotting to the cover edges. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light edge-wear at the spine tips. A small closed tear with a little rubbing at the lower rear spine fold. The colouring to the spine remains unfaded. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The author's debut novel. Extremely scarce as the first UK edition with the USA edition having been published a year earlier. 'Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Gay Talese, Joan Didion is considered one of the pioneers of 'New Journalism' (Wiki). In 2013, she was awarded the 'National Humanities Medal' by President Barack Obama. A very collectible title. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, nice sharp copy.NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but with a small clip piece missing from the f.e.p. which might have been a price.elprde.
Published by IVAN OBOLENSKY, NY, 1963
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 CLOSED TEARS & VERSO DAMPSTAIN TO THE UNCLIPPED DJ. BOOK IS CLEAN & UNMARKED.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Very close to fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. (Traces of light rubbing to uncoated jacket. Trivial wear to small area at bottom edge. ) Author's FIRST book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 264 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Anthony Post. Her first book, a novel. The story of a California pioneer family and the current descendant's marriage which is dissolving into murder. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with slight tanning to the spine. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!.
Published by Ivan Oblensky, New York, 1963
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. A virtually mint copy of the First Printing of Didion's first book, in an unclipped dust jacket with just a hint of wear to the upper right corner of the front face and the upper hinge edge of the spine. Else fine. The contents are fine with a touch of shelf wear to the upper and lower edges of the cloth. Truly inconsequential wear overall.
Published by Ivan Obolensky, New York, 1963
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near-fine copy with a touch of rubbing to the bottom of the boards and faint erasure mark at top corner of flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket (price clipped) with minor rubbing to the spine ends and corners. SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on the title page (rare thus). A beautiful signed copy of Didion's first book, suitable to give as a gift. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Ivan Obolensky, Inc, New York, 1963
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of the Didionās first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Post. A nice example. Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense. "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West. [She has] a vision as bleak and precise as Eliot's" (John Leonard, The New York Times).
Published by Obolensky, New York, 1963
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A F/NF copy of the first edition, first printing of the author's first book. Signed by JOAN DIDION. Just a hint of wear at extremities. Any spots are printing artifacts, not abrasions. The book appears to have been cheaply produced. Signed by Author(s).
hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. INSCRIBED first printing, as stated on copyright page. Inscribed on front free end paper. Book near fine, minor rubbing along edges. Dust jacket very good, price-clipped, some wear and rubbing to edges, corners and panels, minor foxing mostly visible on inside of dj, small tear to upper rear hinge.
First edition. With TLs from Didion from her East 75th Street apartment back to a friend in Sacramento, in which she muses on the unexpected difficulties of moving (particularly with regard to the unpacking of silver and her typewriter) and considers, wearily, the banal critical reception of her first book: "The general tenor of the reviews I've seen so far of my book seems to indicate that I am a very good writer with a very bad problem, which is that I ought to be (A) in psychoanalysis (B) in love (C) out finding God." The "Sis Kennedy" to whom she refers is likely childhood friend Nancy Kennedy, sister of former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who also makes an appearance, referred to in the letter as "Tony." Didion's first book, written while she published articles mainly for Vogue and at the beginning of her relationship with future husband John Gregory Dunne, was indeed a commercial and critical disappointment, not quite the onramp to literary success that Didion and publisher Obolensky had imagined. Reviews noted the Southern Gothic tone to Didion's tale of a hops ranch and its resident family gone to seed; certainly it forecasts Didion's characteristic skepticism toward things generally being all right in the end. It has since proved itself as a testing ground for Didion, a place in which she worked out the better and the lesser parts of her prose. Bound in full teal cloth showing faint rubs to edges and corners, else an uncommonly fine, bright copy in an equally fine dust wrapper.