Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Signed - Joan Didion 1968 - Farrar, New York - First Edition First edition of Joan Didion’s groundbreaking and classic non-fiction collection of essays, in a superior dust jacket, and signed by Didion to the title page.

‘More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”’
  ‘In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country.’ – Dan Wakefield, The New York Times Book Review.

Reference: PanMacmillan Publishers.

Octavo (book size 20.9x14.6cm), pp. xvi [2] 238. In publisher’s orange cloth spine lettered in gilt, cream paper covered boards, with floral decoration stamped in blind to upper board, top edge tinted orange, yellow endpapers. Dust jacket priced ‘$4.95’ to upper corner of front flap.
  Condition: Near fine, light toning along top edge, and wrinkling to spine ends, in near finer dust jacket with corresponding wrinkles to spine ends and minor wear to corners.   Ref: 111135   Price: HK$ 48,000