Classic LA Stories, Signed
Slow Days, Fast Company
Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition.
Notes: A signed first edition of Babitz's second book.
When the New York Review of Books reissued Slow Days, Fast Company in its Classics series, they described the collection of stories as "a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California... In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind–swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow’s script will kill them off..." A classic LA book.
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Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear repaired with tape on the back (verso) of the jacket. Signed by Babitz on the front free endpaper.
Item No: #366450
Price: $1,250