Johnson, Diane

Burning A Novel

Hardcover, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "To Rolland Comstock from Diane Johnson with best wishes." "Entering her phase with a work of almost Dickensian inventiveness and energy, a remarkable young novelist presents Southern California as an inferno of contemporary madness, at once terrible ad terribly funny, in which two latter-day innocents are set adrift with disconcerting consequences." Ships same or next business day. Text block is pulled away from spine ends, moderate edge wear, bumps on top corners, small bumps on spine ends and bottom corners, faded along tail edge of boards, light soiling on fore-edge and endpapers, thin scratch on fore-edge, small white spot on head edge; pages are clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear, small chips on spine ends and corners, 1/2-inch tear on tail edge of front cover, faded on spine, 1/3-inch tear on tail edge of back cover, faintly yellowed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages; Signed by Author. [Item #68249]

Price: $45.00