DIDION, Joan. “The Year of Magical Thinking” [Alfred A. Knopf, 2005] Signed

DIDION, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Third printing before publication. 8.25" x 5.75", 227 pp. Original green cloth-backed boards with cream paper sides, spine lettered in silver. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor shelf wear to extremities, pages clean and unmarked; dust jacket present with light edge wear and a small closed tear at lower edge. Near Fine.

Didion’s National Book Award–winning memoir of grief and mourning, written in the aftermath of her husband John Gregory Dunne’s sudden death. Published in 2005, the work stands as one of the defining literary meditations on loss in contemporary American nonfiction. Signed copies remain especially desirable, combining the book’s lasting cultural importance with the scarcity of authentic author-signed examples from this period.