Black Swans.
de BABITZ, Eve
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1993. A decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Babitz has been likened to F. Scott Fitzgerald for her fictionalized portrayal of a dazzling cultural milieu, in her case 1970s Los Angeles and her adventures there as the "It" girl of Hollywood. This title is rare signed. "If anyone partook of '70s L.A., it was Eve. It was Quaaludes, coke, screwing around a ton, it was that post-pill, pre-AIDS moment that she fully, fully embraced" (Kilkenny). This story collection "deftly chronicles the shifting mores and slow-burn fadeouts of 1980s Hollywood; a potent melancholy hangs over the stories and a bittersweet acceptance that no party, no matter how high the high, can truly last forever" (Aylmer). As a writer, Babitz (1943-2021) was praised by Joan Didion and Joseph Heller but went widely under-appreciated until the release of a 2014 media profile of her life in Vanity Fair. Her works have since been reissued and published in translation for the first time. In response to her sudden emergence as feminist icon to millennials, Babitz quipped, "My whole life, I always got attention from men, and now it's girls who like me" (quoted in Kilkenny). Octavo. Original black cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device on rear cover in blind, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Faint marks to top edge; jacket lightly rubbed, one corner nicked, unclipped: a fine copy in near-fine jacket. Olivia Aylmer, "Eve Babitz Is Better Than Ever", Vanity Fair, 18 April 2018; Katie Kilkenny, "How 1970s 'It' Girl Eve Babitz Became Young Hollywood's Latest Obsession", Hollywood Reporter, 7 January 2019.
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- Black Swans.
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- BABITZ, Eve
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- New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
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- 1993
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Peter Harrington
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
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Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
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