Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Blue Nights by Joan Didion in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 2011 Knopf. First Printing with 2011 on both title and copyright pages and no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on the straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper and no other marks or inscriptions. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price intact, mild surface and edge wear, and looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and [her adopted] daughter, Quintana Roo.
Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhoodin Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
