The Basketball Diaries
by Carroll, Jim
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good unmarkedm creased wraps.
- ISBN 10
- 0140100180
- ISBN 13
- 9780140100181
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Reprint. Trade paperback in glossy author-photo wraps.. Good unmarkedm creased wraps.. Growing up hip on NYCs mean streets, an intense autobiography. Clean tight PB copy.
5 x 7-3/4, 210 pp.
5 x 7-3/4, 210 pp.
Synopsis
The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Set in New York City, they detail his daily life, sexual experiences, high school basketball career, Cold War paranoia, the counter-culture movement, and, especially, his addiction to heroin, which began when he was 13. The book is considered a classic piece of adolescent literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40082
- Title
- The Basketball Diaries
- Author
- Carroll, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback in glossy author-photo wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good unmarkedm creased wraps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140100180
- ISBN 13
- 9780140100181
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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edburynbooks
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Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
Glossary
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- PB
- ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.