Slouching Bethlehem by Didion Joan, First Edition (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. Brand New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Modern Library edition. Fore-edges lightly foxed.

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. 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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of first edition. Very Good Minus in like dust jacket. Nudged at upper corners and head of spine. Mild toning to tan boards. Unmarked. Jacket has edge-wear including small chips at corners and spine-ends and a one-quarter-inch tear at top of rear panel. There's an odd, sort of indent/blemish on the front panel below the title, that just very slightly resonates on the front cover. Some creases to jacket, most sharply on the front flap. Publisher's $4.95 price intact. 238 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover, quarter-bound in orange cloth, with tan blind-stamped (flower motif) front cover, and tan back cover, with gilt lettering on spine, is in G condition, having a faint strip of darkening to top covers, some speckling to the top closed page edge, tinted reddish; slight scuffing to other closed page edges; slight edge tear (and we mean slight) to pp. 207-210; bookplate of former owner on first free endpaper; small area of rubbing/scuffing to right edge of "Also by" page. Dust jacket (designed by Lawrence Ratzkin), enclosed in protective mylar (mylar not pictured), is in G condition, having some rubbing and small stains to surface; slight chipping to top and bottom spine, and evidence of faint stain at spine top; tiny tear at top of jacket back; moderate edge wear. "In 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem,' Miss Didion has brought together the best of her nonfiction writing, keynoted by her extraordinary report on life among the hippies of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. This essay, a brilliant evocation of the life style of the 'flower generation', sets the tone of the book, both in its very personal confrontation between author and subject, and in its underlying theme."-- from DJ. Scarce to find as first edition. Non-fiction. Journalism. Language arts and disciplines. American. DB.

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.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition UK first printing. Very minor light spotting to edges of textblock, else Fine in a price clipped but otherwise Fine Jacket. No ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Wear to dust jacket, including some tearing to top and bottom of spine. Jacket is price-clipped. Minor wear to book itself, including a small chip to lower right front cover. Some darkening along top and bottom cover edges. Name of previous owner in front flyleaf. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. Stated first edition ("First printing, 1968"). The first collection of nonfiction by the late, great Joan Didion and possibly still her most famous work. Considered a paragon of New Journalism. Rare.

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: 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: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First. 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.

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. 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!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good Plus in a Very Good jacket with very small chips at top spine. 1st Printing. Signed by Didion on the first endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

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.

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.

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: 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.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. A fine first edition (First Printing, 1968, stated on copyright page) in a near fine dust jacket. Author's second book and first book of essays. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Original price of $4.95 still on front flap.