The Assignation [Joan Didion's copy]
by OATES, Joyce Carol
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ecco Press, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Near fine. Octavo, 198pp. A crisp, clean, near fine copy in the publisher's printed wraps, gnetly sunned along the extremities. JOAN DIDION'S REVIEW COPY, with a typed letter SIGNED by Oates's editor Lee Ann Chearneyi presenting the book to DIdion and requesting her comments for a possible blurb or longer review. Some staple rust on the review slip matches that on p. 40, where the slip must have spent most of the last 35 years undisturbed. Didion's personal library sold at auction in 2022, where most lots of otherwise ordinary hardbacks and paperbacks, mostly without any annotations, achieved extraordinary sums. A rare chance to obtain at more modest expense another memento from her library, and which brings together two of the most successful American women writers of the past half century.
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- Seller
- Cleveland Book Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 11879
- Title
- The Assignation [Joan Didion's copy]
- Author
- OATES, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Short stories, Short fiction, Feminism, Women writers, Association copies
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Cleveland Book Company
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
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Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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- Fine
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- Crisp
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