NMLP P-039179 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion · Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) · 1970

Jacket designed by Janet Halverson: a snake pointing its forked tongue at a gradient sun on the front panel, lettered in black, with a photograph of Didion by Julian Wasser on the rear panel

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039179 for "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039179, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).