A Collection of the author's published works comprising 22 individual volumes all but one in the first edition, including novels, essays, anthologies, etc. Various places, publishers. Two signed by the author.
by Johnson, Diane
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1965 - 2008. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Novels1. Fair Game. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. 8vo; cloth, in moderately soiled white dust jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine condition in like dust jacket, in mylar wrap. (3010) 2. Loving Hands at Home. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. 8vo; cloth in orange dust jacket. Jacket spine faded, else very crisp. Fine condition in Very Good or better jacket, in Mylar Wrap. (3007) 3. Burning. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First Edition. 8vo; cloth, in price clipped red dust jacket. Small area of what appears to be glue residue from sticker on front pastedown, offsetting to endpaper; jacket rubbed at edges, faded at spine, with light soil to back panel. Near fine condition in very good jacket, with protective mylar wrap. (3008) 4. The Shadow Knows. N.Y.: Knopf, 1974. First Edition. 8vo; cloth, in price clipped dust jacket. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap. (3009) 5. Lying Low. N.Y.: Knopf, 1978. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in lightly soiled white dust jacket. Erasure smudge upper right corner of front endpaper. Near Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap. (3011) 6. Persian Nights. N.Y.: Knopf, 1987. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Minor wear to corner tips of jacket; minor soil to white back panel. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap. (3012) 7. Health and Happiness. N.Y.: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap. (3013) 8. Le Divorce. N.Y.: Dutton, [1997]. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap. (3014) 9. Le Mariage. N.Y.: Dutton, [2000]. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap. (3015) 10. L'Affaire. N.Y.: Dutton, [2003]. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket. (3016) Non-Fiction11. The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives. N.Y.: Knopf, 1972. First Edition. 8vo; cloth in price clipped jacket; black & white photographs. A few nicks to jacket at edges. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap. (3017) 12. Dashiell Hammett, A Life. N.Y.: Random House, [1983]. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in price clipped jacket; black & white photographs. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap. (3018) 13. Terrorists & Novelists. N.Y.: Knopf, 1982. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in white jacket with minor tanning at top edges. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket, with mylar wrap. (3019) 14. Natural Opium, Some Travelers' Tales. N.Y.: Knopf, 1993. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in white jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket, with protective mylar wrap. (3020) 15. Uncorrected Proof Copy: Natural Opium, Some Travelers' Tales. N.Y.: Knopf, 1993. First Edition. 8vo; printed gray wrappers. Fine condition. (3021) 16. Into a Paris Quartier. Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, [2005]. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Double page map; black & white photographs. Fine condition in Fine jacket. (3022) Biographical Anthologies17. Yalom, Marilyn. Women Writers of the West Coast. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, [1983]. First Edition. 8vo; salmon wrappers; black & white portrait photographs by Margo Davis. Wraps faded at extremities. Very Good condition. Section with photograph, from a conversation with Johnson and Susan Groag Bell, Historian, April 28, 1983. (3023) 18. Olson, Diane. The Book That Changed My Life. Interviews with National Book Award Winners & Finalists. N.Y.: The Modern Library, [2002]. 8vo; wrappers. Black & white portrait photos. Fine condition. Interview with Diane Johnson. (3024) 19. [2 Volumes] Darnto; Signed by Author(s) .
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- Seller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Collection of the author's published works comprising 22 individual volumes all but one in the first edition, including novels, essays, anthologies, etc. Various places, publishers. Two signed by the author.
- Author
- Johnson, Diane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- 1965 - 2008
- Date Published
- 1965
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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