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"one of the most movingly redemptive novels I have ever read": First Edition of True Confessions; Signed by John Gregory Dunne and by Joan Didion
DUNNE, JOHN GREGORY [JOAN DIDION].
True Confessions: A Novel.
New York: E.P. Dutton 1977.
First edition of this work, basis for the film, with the screenplay by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Design by Guy Fleming. Photograph by Nancy Ellison. It was the basis for the 1981 film True Confessions, directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Joan Didion. Rare and desirable signed by both Dunne and Didion.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144261
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"we were each other, we were each other, not that it mattered much in the long run but what else mattered as much": First Edition of the authors first book run river; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, JOAN.
Run River.
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc 1963.
First edition of the Didion’s 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.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140695
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First Edition of The Panic In Needle Park; Signed by Joan Didion and Al Pacino
MILLS, JAMES [JOAN DIDION AND AL PACINO].
The Panic In Needle Park.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1966.
First edition of this work basis for the classic 1971 film starring Al Pacino, with the screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion and Academy-Award winning actor Al Pacino on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 118864
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First edition of Jane and Lesley Davison's To Make a House a Home; inscribed by Lesley Davison to Joan Didion
DAVISON, JANE AND LESLEY DAVISON. [JOAN DIDION].
To Make a House a Home: Four Generations of American Women and the Houses They Lived In.
New York: Random House 1994.
First edition of Jane and Lesley Davison’s timeless work. Quarto, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lesley Davison on a bookplate adhered to the second free endpaper, “For Joan Didion. Many thanks for your encouragement. Lesley Davison.” The recipient, American journalist and novelist Joan Didion gained a reputation in the 1960s and 70s as a pioneer of the New Journalism style of news writing. Her articles and political writing engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. She also gained recognition for her sensational novels, including her first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of magazine pieces about her experiences in California. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book endorsement on the back jacket panel contributed by Joan Didion. Jacket design by Susan Shapiro.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 141054
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live": First Edition of The White Album; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, JOAN.
The White Album.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1979.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140025
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"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language": First Modern Library Edition of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, JOAN.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
New York: The Modern Library 2000.
First Modern Library edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 79043
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“A SINGLE PERSON IS MISSING FOR YOU, AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS EMPTY": FIRST EDITION OF JOAN DIDION'S THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING; WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HER
DIDION, JOAN.
The Year of Magical Thinking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005.
First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Tom- in shared sorrow Joan Didion.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 130478
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“A SINGLE PERSON IS MISSING FOR YOU, AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS EMPTY": FIRST EDITION OF JOAN DIDION'S THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING; WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HER
DIDION, JOAN.
The Year of Magical Thinking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005.
First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Rogers with thanks Joan Didion 9.11.15.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 131291
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“We all remember what we need to remember”: First Edition of A Book of Common Prayer; Inscribed by Joan Didion
DIDION, JOAN.
A Book of Common Prayer.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1977.
First edition of Didion’s classic fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Kenneth Stein Joan Didion 11 July ’94.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144198