Slouching Bethlehem by Didion Joan, First Edition (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket with only minor shelf-wear; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, first printing. An ex-library copy with typical stamps and markings, dust jacket present with a call number on the spine, DJ glued to paste downs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near-fine with trace of tanning to top edge of boards and tiny spot on front board, otherwise crisp and clean inside and out (appears unread). In a near-fine dust jacket with corresponding slight tanning to top edge and a touch of soiling to spine ends. A beautiful copy of Didion's second book. In it she describes her experiences in California during the 1960s, most famously her impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center. In contrast to the more Utopian image of the milieu promoted by counterculture sympathizers of the day, Didion offers a rather grim portrayal of the goings-on.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 238 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Her second book and first book of non-fiction. Twenty essays about California and New York in the sixties. Fine book except for a tiny bit of fading to the top edge in a fine dust jacket which is price clipped. A beautiful copy!

8vo., First Edition thus, with 18 pages of illustrations; ivory cloth blocked in black, backstrip lettered in orange and black, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

First Edition, second printing. Stated second printing of Didion's second book and first nonfiction collection, collecting her favorite pieces of journalism from the prior decade writing for Vogue and the Saturday Evening Post. The book would become a formative text for the emerging "New Journalism" movement and cement Didion's reputation not only as a social critic but for her razor-sharp and razor-thin prose style. Boards soiled and toned with light fading to gilt lettering and some edge wear, binding remains square and internally bright and clean; About Very Good. Hardcover octavo in cream boards backed with orange cloth. Lettering stamped in gilt to spine and decorative blindstamping to ffront board. Yellow endpapers. xvi,238pp. No dust jacket.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Twenty essays, her first collection: 'Where the Kissing Never Stops', 'On Keeping a Notebook', 'The Seacoast of Despair', 'John Wayne' and the title piece. Spots of foxing to foredge, very good in dustwrapper. book.

Hardcover in slipcase. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First Folio Society edition. Fine in white hardcover boards with portrait of author on front cover, blue satin marker ribbon, without dust jacket in burnt orange card slipcase. (242pp. ) (6" X 8 3/4") Attractive production from this always distinctive publisher. Author's breakthrough book of essays. ; 6" x 8 3/4"; 242 pages.

Condition: very good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First printing. xvi, (2), 238pp. White dust jacket printed in black red & yellow, over orange cloth lettered in gilt, over blind stamped boards. Dust jacket with some light soiling and a few small closed tears and 1/2" chip at head of spine. Edges of boards with some light soiling from handling. "A half-century after its initial publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains the essential portrait of America--and California in particular--during the sixties. The remarkable debut essay collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, it explores such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room; and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Dan Wakefield wrote in The New York Times Book Review, 'In her portraits of people, [Didion] is not out to expose but to understand.[She] makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful'" (OCLC) Contents: Life styles of the golden land. Some dreamers of the golden dream -- John Wayne : a love song -- Where the kissing never stops -- Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.) -- 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 -- California dreaming -- Marrying absurd -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Personals. On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Seven places of the mind. Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.K. Edition. Very nice, fantastic copy in its first UK printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Red textured cloth with gold lettering to spine bright and fresh. No foxing to pages, bright and clean. Jacket not price clipped and in intact. No tears or chips to jacket, jacket is clean and bright and no foxing to pages or jacket. Very nice copy indeed.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original grey paper covered boards, stamped in blind and orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Lawrence Ratzkin designed dustwrapper. Top edge pink. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and a thin strip of toning to the extreme upper edge. The contents, with a tiny in name to the top right corner of the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($4.95 to the upper front flap). Signed by Joan Didion in black ink on the title page. On first publication of Joan Didion's seminal essay collection, (the title taken from W. B. Yeats' poem 'The Second Coming'), novelist and screenwriter Dan Wakefield wrote for the The New York Times Book Review "Didion's first collection of nonfiction writing, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, brings together some of the finest magazine pieces published by anyone in this country in recent years. Now that Truman Capote has pronounced that such work may achieve the stature of 'art', perhaps it is possible for this collection to be recognized as it should be: not as a better or worse example of what some people call 'mere journalism,' but as a rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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: spotting to boards. light pen to early pages. good +. jacket condition: spotting to verso. unclipped ($4.95). very good -.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Washington Square Press, New York. 1981. 236 pages. Wraps. Signed by Joan Didion on the first page: To ____, Regards, Joan Didion. First Washington Square Press edition, second printing. Book is tight and clean. Minor light handling along exterior edges. No reader's crease on spine. First couple of pages have a very shallow, faint cloud outline towards bottom page edges; none whatsoever on bottom edges. The New York Times espoused this work as "a rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country" and the Atlantic called it a "phenomenon" in turn creating Joan Didion's devoted readership, and cult-like following in modern day America. Joan Didion's most influential book; Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.K. Edition. Very nice copy in its first UK printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Red textured cloth with gold lettering to spine bright and fresh. Price intact jacket is a nice one with no flaws. Faint small scuff mark to bottom page edges only flaw. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Farrar, 1968. Signed by Joan Didion on a professionally tipped in page. CONDITION: Near Fine/Near Fine. Minimal wear. Book and jacket are in great condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo bound in cloth and boards. Stated First Printing. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Bump to upper rear board, with mild wear to board edges, and a few faint spots to fore-edge. Red top-stain fading a bit. Jacket has mild soil with some very shallow chipping at head and a spot of shelf soil to tail. Still looks good to these jaundiced eyes. More images upon request. [CLST].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Boldly signed by Joan Didion inside the front free end page. Stated first printing, 1968 on the copyright page. A copy that's been read. Some wear and creases to the jacket. There is a sticker on the front of the jacket. Pages are tanning.

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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard. "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion's] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx" (John Leonard).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. (Red tint at top edge has faded to pale rose. ) Author's SECOND book and FIRST collection of essays. Together with The White Album the work that best defines her greatness. ; 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 238 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1968. First edition, first printing. Octavo, original half cloth. SIGNED and warmly INSCRIBED by Joan Didion on the half-title page in October 1970 to prior owner. Fine in a fine dust jacket, astonishingly bright and clean. Paperclip shadow on half-title page, and some offsetting on the next two pages (from newspaper clipping). Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Hailed as both a modern classic and an example par excellence of the New Journalism, Didion's first nonfiction book collects twenty of her previously published essays and articles about life in California during the 1960s. Dan Wakefield's contemporaneous review in the New York Times stated the book "brings together some of the finest magazine pieces published by anyone in this country in recent years," and called for it "to be recognized as it should be: not as a better or worse example of what some people call 'mere journalism,' but as a rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country" Quarter bound orange cloth and cream paper, decoratively blind stamped on front; stamped in gilt on spine;

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing stated. Bound in publisher's paper boards decorated in blind over orange cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with paper clip indent and rust mark offsets at several leaves at front. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear. A fantastic copy of a book not normally seen in such nice condition. A collection of autobiographical essays on California in the sixties; the author's first nonfiction book.