Ask Alice by Anonymous, First Edition (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Special order direct from the distributor.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. Nominal Edge/shelf wear. Else tight and square. BIO/AUTO/LIT/YA.

Paperback. first edition canadian. N-431 very good - fine, crease paperback,

First edition. Hardcover. Top and fore edges slightly foxed, a small area just noticeable on the front free endpaper where a bookplate has been removed, o/w very good in very good price-clipped dustjacket with a few tiny professionally closed tears. At the time an influential and widely-read book about teenage drug abuse.

162pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. First UK edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Prentice Hall. New York. 1971. 159 pages. First Edition, 3rd printing, stated. Considering this book is a multi-generational classic, you seldom see early copies in hardcover, and rarely in a dust jacket in collectible condition. Book and DJ are fine. Book is pristine in seemingly unread condition. Four sharp corners. DJ is equally as pristine. $4.95 price intact on flap. An absolutely beautiful, crisp copy of the classic. A teenage girl's experimentation with drugs and sex. A groundbreaking book for teen fiction. First edition, third printing. Fine/Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with tiny creases on the jacket flaps. Fictitious "diary" of a smart 15 year-old who descends into heavy drug use and other ills, allegedly found by her parents after her death by overdose and published as a cautionary tale. The book was actually the product of author and "editor" Beatrice Sparks and other "preparers" who have since produced a number of similar first-person warnings for youth, though the exact authorship remains unknown. Despite (or perhaps because of) its manufactured origins, surprisingly compelling reading. Basis for a 1973 TV movie with William Shatner as Alice's father and Mackenzie Phillips, in her prophetic debut, as one of Alice's ill-influencing friends. Something of a cult classic, reprinted several times, and very scarce in the first edition.

First Edition. 1. Go As Alice - Uncorrected Proof Copy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (21cm); original yellow card wrappers, with titles printed in red on front cover, the publisher's printed pre-publication label mounted directly beneath, and blurbs by Art Linkletter and Dr. Myron Greenbaum printed in red on rear cover; [viii],159.[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and upper wrapper extremities, mild dust-soil to covers, a few faint splash marks to label, with faint foxing to text edges; contents clean; Very Good+. 2. Go As Alice. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); yellow cloth, titled in black on spine; dustjacket; [viii],159,[1]pp. Hint of foxing to text edges, with a few faint foxed spots to covers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), showing some trivial wear to extremities, two tiny tears to lower front panel, with some attendant creasing and a very shallow tide mark; Very Good+. Proof copy and first edition of this anonymously-written work of young adult fiction, charting an unnamed diarist's descent into addiction and self-destructive behavior after being introducted to LSD. Speculation about the book's authenticity and true authorship have been circulating since the late 1970s, though the book is now attributed to Beatrice Sparks (1917-2012), who at the time of publication was a Mormon youth counselor and aspiring writer in her 50s. The book was a publishing sensation, selling millions of copies, and continuously in print since 1971. While the book was adapted for TV in 1973 (starring Jamie Smith-Jackson and William Shatner), its real legacy is being one of the key works establishing the commercial potential of young adult fiction. Elusive in the first printing, with the proof state being genuinely uncommon.