Quintana & Friends
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher’s natural cloth over apricot paper-covered boards, spine stamped in bronze, apricot endpapers, original illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of screenwriter, bestselling novelist (and Joan Didion's husband) John Gregory Dunne’s first nonfiction collection. Published a year after his bestselling novel True Confessions, this gathering places Dunne within a New Journalism sensibility with over thirty pieces ranging across Hollywood, Las Vegas, the US in the Vietnam era, boxing, politics, and the social rituals of the contemporary West. Although the book is not primarily a family memoir, the title refers to his and Didion’s daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. Dust jacket designed by Alfred Manso; photograph of Quintana by Arthur Dunne; author photo by Richard Robinson. First printing with complete number row to copyright page. Bottom corner of upper board lightly banged, else fine in unclipped dust jacket. Item #12920
$65.00