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Ballantine Books., January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. Mass market paperback. Previous reader's name in ink verso of front panel. Shelf wear. Slight bow to spine. First page loose. [149 pages]

NEW YORK: BALLANTINE BOOKS. VG IN WRAPS. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. LIGHT EDGEWEAR. Pages: 150. . 1956. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK.. PAGES CLEAN & TIGHT. .

1/1/1956. Paperback. The first book-length biography of James Dean to appear after his death, written by a friend (and former UCLA classmate). Issued simultaneously in both paperback and hardcover. This is the Ballantine Books vintage paperback, 1956, in good condition.

NY: BALLANTINE BOOKS.. Near Fine. 1956. 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) .

BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1956 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.. First Edition. Soft Cover.

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. .

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.

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.