An American Icon: Property from the Collection of Joan Didion
Wed, Nov 16, 2022 11:00AM EST
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Lot 3
Joan Didion's Favorite Books from the Library of Joan Didion
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for
$26,000
Sold Price excludes BP
Bid Increments
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| $500 | $100 |
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| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $30,000 | $2,500 |
| $100,000 | $5,000 |
Including: A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway; Victory, by Joseph Conrad; Guerrillas, by V.S. Naipaul; Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell; Wonderland, by Joyce Carol Oates; The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford; Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara; The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer; Speedboat, by Renata Adler; Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin; The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood; Collected Poems, by Robert Lowell; Collected Poems, by W.H. Auden; and The Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens. All with bookplates from the Library of Joan Didion.
Note: Didion wrote out a list of nineteen books on a piece of graph paper that has become known as her 'favorite book list.' Included are books by authors whose influence Didion has written and spoken about, as well as three collections of poetry. This lot contains fifteen of the nineteen books.
Condition
Collection from Stair
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