Search results 473 Found

[No place, 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. Brad bound printed red wrappers. 101 carbon(?)-typed leaves printed rectos only. Small stains in the margins of some pages, small tear on the yapped edges of the wrappers. very good. A filmscript or quasi-film script and treatment for an intriguing medical thriller and mystery, never produced film, the evolution of the story is clouded with mystery. Purportedly written as a story by Robert Bloch, and then made into a screenplay by Didion and Gregory, along with *Ironsides* produced by Collier Young, but after the film failed to come to fruition, then published by Young as a novel. At any rate, an early version of a long rumored script.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. First. hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A near fine first printing (so stated on the copyright page) in a price-clipped near fine dust jacket. Stored in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Simon & Schuster, 1979. first. hardcover. near fine/near fine. INSCRIBED AND DATED first edition, with number line from 1-10 on copyright page. Book near fine, very faint rubbing to upper covers. Dust jacket near fine, minor tanning, very minor edge wear, tiny closed tear to upper rear panel. Comes in supplied paper-covered slipcase.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page, inscribed to former owner and dated March 10, 1987, Toronto. 223 pp. Bound in publisher's red boards with dark navy cloth backstrip, spine lettered in white. Near Fine with light foxing to fore and top edges, slight bump to corners, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, hint of sunning to spine panel, light wear. A rare signed copy of an acclaimed collection of essays by the late American author.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Nancy with thanks for enabling me to come to Philadelphia [signed] Joan Didion Nov. 23 '73". First edition, third printing. xviii, 238 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A collection of autobiographical essays on California in the sixties; the author's first nonfiction book.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First. hardcover. Very good/Very good. A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket, with First Edition stated on the copyright page and original price on front flap.

NY: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, 1963. 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.