FINE AS SHOWN VINTAGE CONDITION BOOK IN A
GOOD DUSTJACKET

ECRU LINEN BOARDS WITH BLIND STAMPED
"MARILYN" AT THE FRONT COVER TOP EDGE

GILT TITLE ON SPINE

NO WEAR WHATSOEVER TO THE BOOK

THE DUSTJACKET IS INTACT BUT HAS CLOSED TEARS
and WEAR AT THE EDGES

DUSTJACKET IS PRICE CLIPPED
(original price was $19.95)

THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE HAVE SMALL PIECES MISSING
 
SMALL CLOSED TEARS FRONT AND BACK, THE LARGEST
AT THE TOP BACK EDGE ABOUT 1" LONG

THE JACKET IS NOW IN MYLAR

FROM THE DUSTJACKET FLYLEAVES:
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also
a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love
affair was conceivably with the camera.

Since the text has been written by the author many consider
our most important American writer, and it is his first biography,
that is literary news. It is, however, much more than that.
MARILYN is a major biography, a full attempt to understand
a beautiful, complex, and tragic woman. Mailer further gives us
an insight into her contradictions few could offer, and so her
life becomes revealed in a work that will fascinate both men
and women. In her life and in the mysterious circumstances of
her death, she has become a symbol of the bizarre decade in
which she made her impact.

During that time Marilyn Monroe was the most sought after
photographic subject in the world. Lawrence Schiller was one of
the young photographers who had taken some of her finest
pictures. Years later, he arranged a photographic exhibit from the
stills of many major photographers who had worked with her.
Called MARILYN MONROE - The Legend and the Truth, it was
seen by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States
and Japan. Arranged here to form a photographic essay, a
remarkable counterpoint is offered to Norman Mailer's text.

It is the publisher's hope that by way of this collaboration may
emerge a chronology of a woman's emotions in a long inner life of
spontaneity, upset, triumph, and dread. Let us leave it that we have 
two histories here, one in words and another in photographs. If
successful, they will come together in the shape of an elusive
search for that most mercurial charm - the identity of a lovely
if seldom simple woman."



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THE MOST TALKED ABOUT BOOK OF 1973

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