Play It As It Lays

Inscribed first edition of Didion's Play It As It Lays.

• Joan Didion (American).
• New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970).
•  213 pages.
• Inscribed by Didion on the front free endpaper.
• Bound in publisher’s red cloth with black cloth spine.

Following the novel Run River and the collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, this was her breakthrough book. It is the the tersely told story of Maria Wyeth, a 31 year old who knows “the meaning of nothing,” and the sun-bleached misadventures of her Beverly Hills set.