The Basketball Diaries

by Jim Carroll

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Bolinas, CA. Tombouctou / A Lamplighter Book, 1978. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Very Good. Spine creasing and light general wear to covers, former owner name and Bolinas address written to a preliminary blank, staining to textblock fore edge, occasionally affecting the interior of pages. The fictionalized memoir of

• Printing: first

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