B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * * H O L I D A Y G I F T S * 8 "WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES IN ORDER TO LIVE": FIRST EDITION OF THE WHITE ALBUM, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION 8. DIDION, Joan. The White Album. New York, 1979. Octavo, original half navy cloth, dust jacket. $2400 First edition of this critically praised volume of essays, defined by a style and “a voice like no other in contemporary journalism”—boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. “Didion manages to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike movies, for instance, and Bishop James Pike) as interesting and suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration (Georgia O’Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota)… A timely and elegant collection” (New Yorker). “All of the essays manifest not only [Didion’s] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader’s memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism” (New York Times Book Review). Small owner signature. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with faint toning along top, one tiny closed tear on top of front panel.
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