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Published by Ballantine Books. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1956
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. 180 reading copy, many creases PBO. Biographical, photo cover. paperback,
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 149p period paperback with James Dean photograph to cover, a very well preserved, no names or stamps, first edition, spine not creased, corners not worn, page edges browning but tight, a very good copy indeed Language: English.
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The paperback issue. Close to near fine copy in pictorial printed wrappers. (Traces of shelf wear at edges & spine. Small nick at base of front cover. Couple page tips lightly creased) Nice copy overall. The most sought after of all the early books on the actor. (LR).
Published by BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1956
First Edition
Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. PBO, Softcover, 1956, Stated 1st edition on back Cvr WITH #180 ON FRONT CVR, NF+/VG,Softcover, light edgewear scuff, with Original price of 35 cents on Cvr. Tiny corner cvr Crease. Interior nice tight clean light wear fox. 149 PGS.
Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1956
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and price-clipped dust jacket are both well worn, though intact. Pages are clean; photos are bright. Edges of boards are worn through. Jacket is taped to itself on flaps. Spine is starting at rear, though holding firm. Front free and rear endpages have red writing and scars from pocket removal. Title page and a few at rear have a small library stamp. Still a sturdy, clean copy of a scarce, desirable item. Small 8vo. 153 pp.
Published by New York: Ballantine Books, 1956
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the photographic dust jacket (reproducing two photographs by Roy Schatt). Corners nicked and slight loss at the head of the spine and creasing on the very top of the jacket cover, but still a nice copy in the clipped spine-faded (nearly all extant copies have this) cover bright jacket with creases and tears to the extremities. Photographic portrait frontispiece by Roy Schatt. First edition, first printing; scarce hardbound edition, of James Dean's posthumous biography written (as his first book) by his close friend William Bast, who he met rehearsing for a student theatre production of Macbeth at UCLA in 1950. This is the first book-length biography of Dean to appear after his death in 1955, by a friend (and former UCLA classmate); issued simultaneously in paperback, this is the much scarcer hardcover printing.
Published by Ballantine, 1956
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. JAMES DEAN A BIOGRAPHY, Ballantine, 1956, first edition, some old tannish tape stains to the end-papers & paste-downs, else a vg+/near fine copy in a vg+ photographic dust-wrapper with some rubbing to the spine and the rear dust-wrapper panel. The first book-length biography of Dean to appear after his death by one who knew him quite well. Among those titles listed in BALLANTINE BOOKS: THE FIRST DECADE, Bailiwick Books, 1987.