"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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Didion, Joan.
$700.00Item Number: 79043
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.
Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. "In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."
Other Books by this Author
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First Edition of Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays; Signed by Her
Didion, Joan.
Play It As It Lays.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.
First edition of Didion’s third book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,500.00
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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 author’s 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. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Contemporary bookplate to the front free endpaper, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Anthony Post.
Price: $1,350.00
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First Edition of Joan Didion's Political Fictions; Signed by Her
Didion, Joan.
Political Fictions.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $400.00
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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order TO Live; Signed by Joan Didion
Didion, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.
First edition, early printing of this Everyman’s Library’s compilation of the author’s collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard.
Price: $400.00
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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; Signed 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. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $475.00
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First Edition of Joan Didion's South and West: From A Notebook; Signed by Her
Didion, Joan.
South and West: From A Notebook.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
First edition of this collection of writings from the acclaimed author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $400.00
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First Edition of Joan Didion's Miami; Signed by Her
Didion, Joan.
Miami.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
First edition of this “kaleidoscope of impressions, and a litany of violence, intrigue, vengeance, and political manipulation, and broken dreams” (Boston Globe). Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a small stain to the verso of the jacket. Jacket design by Koppell & Scher.
Price: $300.00
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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. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $750.00
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“We all remember what we need to remember”: First Edition of Joan Didion's A Book of Common Prayer; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
Didion, Joan.
A Book of Common Prayer.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
First edition of Didion’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Joan Didion in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $750.00
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
New York: Atheneum, 1967.
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Markowitz, Harry M.
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