James Dean. A Biography

BAST, William (James Dean)

Published by New York: Ballantine Books, 1956

About this Item

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. Seller Inventory # 336

Bibliographic Details

Title: James Dean. A Biography

Publisher: New York: Ballantine Books

Publication Date: 1956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition