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Didion, Joan A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [ SIGNED ] New York Simon & Schuster 1977 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket 272 pages; Inscribed and SIGNED on the ffep by Didion. Later printing. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Remainder mark on bottom edge. ; Later Printing; Signed by Author Price: 22.95 USD
Didion, Joan PLAY IT AS IT LAYS [ SIGNED ] New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 1970 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket Inscribed and SIGNED by Didion on first blank. Later printing. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown endpaper. A dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui. Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping. Play It As It Lays is set in a place beyond good and evil, literally in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the barren wastes of the Mojave, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul. Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel.; Later Printing; Signed by Author Price: 49.95 USD
Didion, Joan ; [SIGNED] RUN RIVER New York Ivan Oblensky 1963 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket 8vo ; Inscribed and SIGNED by Didion on ffep (dated March 30, 1963). Author's first novel. Dustjacket has light rubbing at corners and spine ends - quite nice. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown endpaper. ; First Printing; Signed by Author Price: 199.95 USD
Didion, Joan ; [SIGNED] SALVADOR New York Simon and Schuster 1983 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dustjacket 8vo ; Flatsigned by Didion on ffep. In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only on the terror but also on the depredations and evasions of our own country"s foreign policy. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown endpaper ; First Printing; Signed by Author Price: 37.95 USD
Didion, Joan ; [SIGNED] SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM New York Farrar, Strauss, Giroux 1973 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket 8vo ; Inscribed and SIGNED by Didion on ffep. 1973 Later printing. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown endpaper. A wonderful early book by Didion including her moving essay on hippies in Haight-Ashbury. Most of the essays deal with the atomization of modern life, the sense that "things fall apart." ; Later Printing; Signed by Author Price: 99.95 USD
