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Play It As It Lays
by Didion, Joan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Good in an about Very Good jacket, clipped, faded a shade at the spine, bumped and rubbed at the edges. Quarter black cloth with red cloth on the boards, a few small stains. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, front endpaper removed, bookstore stamps on the first two leaves, clean and complete otherwise. Didion's controversial novel of Maria Wyeth and her interactions with within and without Hollywood.
Synopsis
Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by the American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7932
- Title
- Play It As It Lays
- Author
- Didion, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar , Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- 1960s, Abortion, Hollywood, American Literature, Modern Literature
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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