Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, early printing of Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1970 Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. Second Printing, 1970 stated.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, a few spots on top page block, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the second blank page and no other marks or inscriptions. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with $5.95 price on the front flap. Looks great in a Brodart archival wrap.
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
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