PLAY IT AS IT LAYS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original orange and black cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in the Janet Halverson designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($5.95 to the upper front flap).

Signed by Joan Didion in black ink on the title page. A beautiful example of the author's third book (and second work of fiction). The basis for the 1972 Frank Perry directed film of the same name starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne.