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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Run of six first printings, with two signed by the author to the title page without dedications, in Near Fine to Fine condition. Very clean and bright original cloth bindings with sharp corners to the boards; no previous owner's marks; very clean and tight text blocks with no spotting or sunning other than limited spotting to some top edges. Dust jackets condition: Near Fine to Fine: very clean and bright with no losses, tears or nicks; a little shelf wear to some extremities and a little sunning to some top edges only; not price clipped. Six books will need additional postage, as the price quoted by Abe of for a single book. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of the definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Calligraphy by Gun Larson. Photograph by Ted Streshinsky. Edited by David L. Ulin. Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first time. Collected in this first volume are Didion's five iconic books from the 1960s and 1970s: Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, and The White Album. Whether writing about countercultural San Francisco, the Las Vegas wedding industry, Lucille Miller, Charles Manson, or the shopping mall, Didion achieves a wonderful negative sublimity without condemning her subjects or condescending to her readers. Chiefly about California, these books display Didion's genius for finding exactly the right language and tone to capture America's broken twilight landscape at a moment of headlong conflict and change.

[Land and Water Speed Records] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNATURES, FLICK BOOK, NEWSPAPER, AND LONG-PLAY RECORD, LEO VILLA ASSOCIATION. Two ink signatures by Malcolm Campbell on separate scraps of paper, one with a small newspaper photograph cut out and laid on, dated 22/07/1935. One framed black and white photograph showing Donald Campbell with his CBE next to Leo Villa outside Buckingham Palace in January 1957. Six loose official black and white photographic prints showing Donald, Malcolm, and Leo, including some shots of Bluebird cars, all with official stamps. Nine further associated black and white photographs, lacking captions or stamps. Four black and white photographic 'Bluebird' postcards, all blank. One promotional flick-book celebrating Sir Malcolm Campbell's water speed record of 1937; publisher's card covers, stapled twice. One section from 'The Daily Express', Tuesday March 20, 1984, pp.13-20, including the article 'Campbell's daughter takes up the big challenge,' describing Gina's Campbell's participation in the Round Britain Powerboat Race of that year. One long-play record (33 1/3 rpm) titled 'World Water Speed Record 1956: Donald Campbell's Southward Run on Coniston Water,' with the original brown card slip. Photographs contained within a yellow envelope addressed in blue ink to Mrs. J. Villa at her home in Surrey, with a postmark of 16th August 1967. Newspaper folded twice, with rubbing, some tears and heavy browning. Photographs, postcards and signature scraps all lightly handled. Flick-book fine. Record slip split to all joints, in two pieces, with thumbing and dog-earing to edges. Envelope heavily handled but intact. Photograph frame lightly rubbed and bumped. Record somewhat scratched, producing moderate crackling, but without interrupting play. Very good overall. A archive of material relating mainly to the water speed records of Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell between the mid 1930's and the late 1950's. Some or all of the collection seemingly belonged at one time to the family of Leo Villa (1899-1979), who served as chief mechanic for both Campbells. Signed.