THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
By Joan Didion New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page and $23.95 price to the jacket's flap. A biographical memoir of Didion's marriage to John Gregory Dunne, her experiences of his sudden death, her daughter's surprise illness and recovery from near death, and her own recovery from brain surgery. This work was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Didion garnered numerous accolades including the National Book Award. Fine in textured olive over smooth cream-yellow boards with silver embossed titles to the spine, olive and yellow headband and tail-band; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a few minuscule light pink dots to the front panel; original printed $23.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 227 pages. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION LITERARY BOOKS THANKS! |