Joan Didion’s first novel and first book publication, written at the beginning of her journalistic career while rapidly working her way up the masthead at Vogue. In Run River, she explores her native California with a nostalgia and poignancy that is less characteristic of her later work.

Ivan Obolensky, 1963. First edition. Hardcover, 264 pp. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Blue cloth binding with white lettering to spine. Bright dust jacket is price clipped, small tape reinforcement on verso. Book near fine in very good dust jacket.