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A Book of Common Prayer

A Book of Common Prayer by Didion, Joan

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
A Book of Common Prayer
Author
Didion, Joan
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977 First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Didion on front free endpaper: "For Steve / With hopes + wishes for a good year - / Joan Didion / July 19 '77". Publisher's black cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards, lettered in gold with red decorative stamping to spine, orange endpapers; in the original yellow and black dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson, with a photo of Didion by John Bryson to the rear panel. Very good book, with some rubbing to spine and boards, some sunning to top edges of boards, and a gentle lean to spine; very good unclipped dust jacket, with a ¾-inch closed tear to top of front panel and a few small closed tears to top of rear panel, lightly nicked upper corners, and some staining to jacket verso, faintly visible on front panel. Overall, a beautiful copy. Didion's third novel, A Book of Common Prayer, centers around the estranged relationship between Charlotte Douglas and her daughter, Marin. Charlotte abandons her failing marriage to go to the fictional country of Boca Grande in Central America with a vague hope of finding her daughter, who is in hiding after engaging in revolutionary acts of domestic terrorism. The story is told from the perspective of Grace Strasser-Mendana, a wealthy and influential widow who lives in Boca Grande. Joyce Carol Oates, in her New York Times review of the book, writes, "Like her narrator, [Didion] has always been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.". Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.
A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.; Including their Religion, Agriculture, &c., Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors

A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.; Including their Religion, Agriculture, &c., Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors by Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner

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A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.; Including their Religion, Agriculture, &c., Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors
Author
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
London: John Murray, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Three volumes, 8vo. xxix,(1), 444; xxv,(1), 483, xi,(1)37 pp .plus plates and publisher's catalogue dated March 1841. Full dark green polished calf by Tout and Sons. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, intricately tooled in gilt. Red leather lettering labels, Gilt rules on the boards, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, marbled endpaper's. Volume three has some sunning to the upper board, hinges on all volumes neatly strengthened, else a near fine copy. The plate numbering continues from the first series of 1837 and begins with number 18. Added plates are numbered thus: 24a, 30a, 35a, 36a, 37a, 43a, 46a and 54a. In addition, a note in Volume III (p. vii) explains that plates 73 and 74 were renumbered to 24a and 46a. This, and the first series, are considered the cornerstone of British Egyptian Archaeology. .

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