The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 First Edition First Printing HC DJ

by Joan Didion

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First edition

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This is the true 2005 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition, First Printing hardcover, with the original dust jacket. The copyright page states First Edition with no later printing indicated, and the rear jacket flap carries the original 10/2005 date code. Didion's intensely personal memoir examines the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and her experience of grief, memory, marriage and loss. The book won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was subsequently a Pulitzer Prize finalist, establishing it as one of Didion's most important works. This first printing is substantially more collectible than ordinary later-printing and paperback copies. Condition Good overall condition. The hardcover book itself is clean and sound with a firm photographed binding and clean photographed internal pages. Only minor visible wear and a small page-block edge mark are apparent. The original dust jacket remains intact but shows noticeable edge and corner wear, light creasing, rubbing/handling marks and several small nicks. Please inspect all photographs carefully as they form part of the item description. Highlights 2005 First Edition, First Printing Alfred A. Knopf, New York Original dust jacket ISBN 9781400043149 227 numbered pages 2005 National Book Award winner 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist Important Joan Didion collectible edition Packing Your book will be protected, packed and tracked for safe delivery.

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2005
• ISBN: 9781400043149
• Condition: Good

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