The Assignation [Joan Didion's copy] de OATES, Joyce Carol - 1988

New York: Ecco Press, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Near fine. Octavo, 198pp. A crisp, clean, near fine copy in the publisher's printed wraps, gnetly sunned along the extremities. JOAN DIDION'S REVIEW COPY, with a typed letter SIGNED by Oates's editor Lee Ann Chearneyi presenting the book to DIdion and requesting her comments for a possible blurb or longer review. Some staple rust on the review slip matches that on p. 40, where the slip must have spent most of the last 35 years undisturbed. Didion's personal library sold at auction in 2022, where most lots of otherwise ordinary hardbacks and paperbacks, mostly without any annotations, achieved extraordinary sums. A rare chance to obtain at more modest expense another memento from her library, and which brings together two of the most successful American women writers of the past half century.