Play It As It Lays

by Joan Didion

$1,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First edition, first printing. viii , 214 pp. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth decorated in blind over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with staining to front board, a few small dampstains to top edge, intruding in upper margins of prelims. In Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, light shelf wear, front flap creased. The late American author's second novel,

• Printing: first

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