James Dean : American Icon Tapa dura - 1984

Hardback. Very Good.

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 30/10/1984 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 3.5533 in x 23.6041 in x 16.2437 in.

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First UK edition hardback, 1984, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage. Internally very clean. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions, text and plates crisp and clear throughout. 9.5 x 12 inches, 287 pages and over 1.5kg.

London England: Sidgewick & Jackson Ltd, 1987. As Hollywood's last great idol and the original rebel without a cause, James Dean was the model for rock 'n' roll's all-American delinquent and solitary dreamer. Remarkably, only East of Eden had been released at the time of Jimmy's death, but his fatal crash at age 24 made him a star of the magnitude of Marilyn, Brando, Garbo and Gable, and his "live-fast-die-young-have-a-beautiful-corpse" philosophy turned his life into the stuff of legend. Exhaustive research by photo editor Ron Cayen has yielded over 300 colour and black and white photos - many recently discovered - to make this lavishly illustrated book the ultimate tribute to a twentieth-century American icon whose face has become as familiar as that of Mickey Mouse, Mao or Mick Jagger. Assembled here for the first time is an eye-popping collection of Technicolour posters, lurid movie magazine spreads, Dean-on-bongos album covers, comic book biographies,… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.