The Basketball Diaries

by Jim Carroll

$450 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou / Lamplighter, 1978. First edition, first printing. 150, 4 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with creasing and wear to spine, rubbing at extremities, light creasing and soiling to covers and light foxing to textblock edges. Finger soiling to front blank, toning and musty odor to contents. The semi-autobiographical novel of reckless youth that inspired the 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio;

• Printing: first

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