James Dean. A Biography
by BAST, William (James Dean)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Glendale, California, United States
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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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031
- Title
- James Dean. A Biography
- Author
- BAST, William (James Dean)
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cinema studies and biography
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books LLC, specializes in books from the 16th through 20th century. We stock many books in the field of literature, Western philosophy, Greek classics, the history of ideas, Medicine & Science & fine sets. We are always looking to purchase individual books in our areas of interest.
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