signed second printing, 2011.
"the new book...is honest, unflinching, necessarily solipsistic and, in the way of these things, self-lacerating: did she do her duty by her daughter, did she nurture her, protect her, care for her, as a mother should? did she, in a word, love her enough? these.....
first edition, 1977.
set in the fictional central american country "boca grande," didion's third novel is narrated by grace strasser-mendana, an american expatriate who married into one of the nation's politically dominant families. grace narrates the experiences of charlotte douglas, another american whose daughter marin has run off.....
first edition, 1970.
didion's novel of discontent in los angeles has often been credited as helping to define modern american fiction. it was adapted for film in 1972 by frank perry. didion and her husband john dunne wrote the screenplay.
new york: farrar, straus and giroux. 8.5 x......
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.....
first edition, 2003.
from the la times:
"valediction and elegy alike, 'where i was from' is a storm-tossed book. its history is dense, its associations nonlinear, its prose sharp, direct and chiseled, and its focus -- 'historical nihilism,' as she wrote in a publicity sheet -- maddeningly.....
first edition, 1979.
collection of essays previously published in magazines by the one and only joan didion. the pieces, which range in style from memoir, criticism, and journalism, focus primarily on late 60s and early 70s california.
new york: simon and schuster. 5.6 x 8.75". 222 pages.....
inscribed presentation copy, 1979.
these essays, ranging in style from memoir, criticism, and journalism, focus primarily on "the upheavals and their aftermaths" of california in the 1960s and early 70s. didion examines the manson murders, the rise of the black panther party and the arrest of huey newton, the.....
first edition, 1979.
collection of essays previously published in magazines by the one and only joan didion. the pieces, which range in style from memoir, criticism, and journalism, focus primarily on california in the late 1960s and early 70s.
new york: simon and schuster. isbn: 0671226851. 5.5 x......
first edition, 2005.
new york: alfred a. knopf. isbn: 140004314x. 5.5 x 8 inches. 227 pages. hardcover. bound in paper and cloth-covered boards. jacket condition: unclipped (u.s.a. $23.95).
inscribed first edition, 2005.
"for nancy
joan didion"
new york: alfred a. knopf. isbn: 140004314X. 227 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches. hardcover. bound in partial paper and cloth-covered boards. book condition:
light soiling to head of block. shelfwear. very good+. jacket condition: light soiling to front and.....
first edition thus, 1963.
new york: bantam books. 4.5 x 7 inches. softcover. bound in paper wrappers. book condition: few loose leaves. mild toning to block. chip to front wrapper, mild creasing to spine, shelf wear throughout. very good.
first edition, 1968.
didion’s quintessential writing on california in the 1960s that defined the state’s image for a generation.
new york: farrar, straus and giroux. 5.75 x 8.25"". 238 pages. hardcover. bound in paper and cloth-covered boards. book condition: shelf-wear and fading to extremities. small stain to.....
first edition, 2005.
from the new york times:
"in december 2003, the only daughter of didion and her husband, the writer john gregory dunne, fell into septic shock from a runaway pneumonia infection. her doctors at new york's beth israel north put the young woman -- she.....