Vegas by John Gregory Dunne (47 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.33.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.65.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. This book is covered in neat, clear plastic protecting the dust jacket. The DJ is in very good condition. There is a small crease on the crown of the spine. The hardcover is in good condition. There is some light fading along the edges. The binding is sound. There are no loose pages. The inside covers, end pages and page edges have some light foxing. The fore pages have a deckled edge.

Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Random House, 1974. Stated First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 288pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards quarter-bound in blue and ecru cloth with purple stamping to spine. Dust jacket shows significant toning to front and rear panels; interior flaps similarly toned and spine faded. Jacket bumped at spine ends, edges, and corners. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; notably sunned at top and bottom edges of front and rear panels; superficial scratch to front board. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets slightly toned; interior pages clean. A Good Plus copy in a Very Good jacket. In Vegas, John Gregory Dunne chronicles the summer he spent living alone on the Las Vegas strip, the nervous breakdown that drove him there, and the characters he encountered upon his arrival. The book combines diaristic first-person narration with a journalistic examination of America's seedy underbelly. A journalist at the start of his career, and later the author of novels and screenplays, Dunne was Joan Didion's husband and frequent collaborator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Inscribed by Dunne on the front flyleaf. 2nd printing. Covers faded along edges. Jacket shelfworn.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 288 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Black spine with rainbow and yellow text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has yellowing to covers, creasing to rear cover, and mild edge and shelf wear. Boards have discoloration to head edges and slight tear to tail edge of front board. Text block has remainder mark on tail edge. Signed by author on front endpaper. Scarce. Shelved in Case 6. "Vegas" was John Gregory Dunne's first novel. 1372733. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small open tear on front panel bottom corner. Light shelfwear on spine crown. Very light foxing on top text block edge. ; 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 288pp. Oatmeal cloth over blue boards. Purple titles on spine, purple initials on front board. Fading to board edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows mild wear to head and foot of spine. Slight toning to white areas of jacket. Original 6.95 price on front flap, along with price sticker from previous seller. Dunne's now seldom-seen memoir, it was called in 2013, "the best Las Vegas book you've never read.". 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8VO, NICE COPY, along the same lines as Play It as it LAYS, stated FIRSST EDITION. H3/4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Very Good or better copy in quarter white cloth, dark cobalt blue paper boards, in a Very Good glossy laminated dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Slight discoloration of edges of blue boards. Jacket with tiny rub to crown. 288pp. Q20382.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 288 pages. In Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with rainbow and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$6.95", has mild shelving wear, stains on the front and rear covers, mild wear along the extremities, bending wear along the front flap head corner, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, moderate age-toning from the head and tail edges down, stains along the spine, and light bumping on the front tail fore corner. Textblock is lightly cocked, is separating from the spine on the head, has stains on the head and tail edges of page 21, splitting to gutter from title page - page 21, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, adhesive wear along the rear pastedown, mild wear along the edges, mild age-toning along the edges, stains on the edges, and a faded red stamp on the head edge. Signed flat by John Gregory Dunne on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1388628. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Random House, New York. 1974. 288 pages. First edition stated, first printing with Random House's requisite numberline beginning with the number two, in addition to the presence of the words First Edition. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. No writing within. Blue paper covered boards quarter-bound in white cloth; stamped in purple on front, and on backstrip. Book is near fine; its only flaw being slight sunning along panel edges. Original DJ with $6.95 price intact on flap. Attractive DJ is bright and clean. DJ is about fine with a couple of tiny edge rubs. An uncommon first edition, first printing of Dunne's classic that follows the many colorful characters of Vegas nightlife, from hookers and pimps, to bail bondsmen and lounge comics. Near fine/Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8.5 x 6", cloth backed boards, 288pp, extremities a little worn, spine ends gently bumped, small spot to top of spine else a nice, clean copy, in a rubbed, lightly speckled dustjacket that has a bit of de-lamination along the top of the rear panel. FIRST EDITION (as stated), FIRST PRINTING (numberline starts at "2"). SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [16], 4-288, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over blue paper boards with purple lettering on the front board and purple and navy lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Dunne's first-hand experiences in the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas. His memoir follows three people: a private eye, a hooker, and a casino comedian. Through these stories the reader comes to understand the trials of many of the citizens of Las Vegas, and what it's like to be a part of the city's adult tourism industry. A touch of sunning to the boards' top edges; jacket with a few hints of edge wear and a tiny brown spot on its rear flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DUNNE, John Gregory (Joan Didion her husband) [288] pp. Random House 1974 First Edition 8 1/2" x 6" A telling portrait of the motion-picture industry as seen through the eyes of the movie studio executives. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season (1974) describes the narrator's nervous breakdown in a story about three colourful inhabitants of Las Vegas, Nevada. Dunne examined Irish American communities.

[Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.[14]; 288; [2]. Publisher's blue softcovers, white titles to upper, lower, and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Paul May priced at £1.50 to front flap. Light toning to edges. Some wear to spine. Otherwise, near fine. The now out-of-print novel by Dunne which was met with two challenges upon release; first, it was published only three years after the cult classic 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' and secondly, readers weren't sure whether the book was a novel or non-fiction. Dunne's preface only serves to further muddy this distinction.