Slouching Bethlehem by Didion Joan, Signed (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. SIGNED! New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. 16th paperback printing. 8vo. xvi,237pp. Signed by author on half title page. Very Good book. (essays, California, San Francisco, hippes) Inquire if you need further information.

First edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the second half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed. Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. "In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country." Listed by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923.

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.

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.

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. 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).

First Modern Library edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick. Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. "In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country.".

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint. Signed by Joan Didion and inscribed to a former owner on the publisher's imprint page. Bound in publisher's original pink and white wraps printed in yellow and black. Very Good with light edge wear and light spine creases, pages toned. A collection of autobiographical essays on California in the sixties; the author's first nonfiction book.

Signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Nancy with thanks for enabling me to come to Philadelphia [signed] Joan Didion Nov. 23 '73". First edition, third printing. xviii, 238 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A collection of autobiographical essays on California in the sixties; the author's first nonfiction book.