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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012-04-25. Paperback. Good.

New York: Rudolph Field, 1953. 63pp. plus several full-page b&w photos following text. Yellow/orange boards show water damage, as do both sets of endpapers and the final full-page photo at the end. Internal contents otherwise show no sign of damage. Binding tight, spine straight, corners solid. Titles in red on front board. Facsimile dust jacket is composed of two halves, joined seamlessly from inside by tape. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. Single missing chip along upper back panel edge. Uncommon early volume devoted to Marilyn Monroe, featuring numerous b&w photos. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Very Good. 8vo.

New York, 1953. (New York: Greenberg Publisher Rudolph Field Company 1953). First US Softback Edition. The first published book on Marilyn Monroe with 39 black and white photographs in the early years of her career. A VG+ copy minisculy rubbed to the tip and tail of the spine with a tiny crease at the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover and with a further crease to the left-hand corner of the back cover. Firm hinges. To the half-title page there is an old price (2/6) in biro. Inner text and photographs clean. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Original publisher s wrappers. A fine fresh copy which appears to have never been read. Rare first edition of the highly elusive first collectible book devoted exclusively to the now legendary model, actress and sex symbol, with 39 black & white photographs of her in the early stages of her career. While her husband served in the merchant marine during World War II, Monroe found a job inspecting parachutes at the Radioplane Company. Army photographers who had arrived at the plant to take commercial and military pictures of female war workers discovered her. From this first successful posing arose Monroe s fabled love affair with the camera (particularly with still photography). She was sensual and at ease before the camera, and her direct sexuality mingled with her beauty, her innocence and her now lightened blonde hair accounted for her popularity with photographers and filmmakers (ANB). This book appeared in the early days of Monroe s fame; at the young age of 27, she had already appeared in such… Read More

Rudolph Field Company, 1953. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Soft cover Fine Copy. One of the First Books on Marilyn Monroe First Edition.Sold for $1.00 Inscribed by Franklin "Remembering Marilyn Joe Franklin". Beautiful Fresh Copy.

SIGNED by author/TV star Joe Franklin, the First Book exclusively on Marilyn Monroe, First Edition. Inscribed sans personalization, "Remembering Marilyn Joe Franklin." Franklin is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest running continuous on-air TV talk show host. A beautiful, fresh copy of the first edition, 1953, the year of the double helix discovery, Lucy on the first issue of TV Guide, and the first TV presentation of The Academy Awards. This rarity was reissued in 2012 because of renewed intense interest in Monroe and Franklin. Book #Cv2324. $998. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Greenberg Publ, Rudolph Field NY, 1953. HB NODustjacket, 1953, 1st edition, Yellow Cloth Cover lettered in Red, Cover some light Staining Overall & light Rub spine & Extremities, Interior Nice, Tight Clean, F-/VG, NODJ, 63 pgs + Personality Photos of MM, AS-IS,The pages are all crisp and clean with no rips, tears, or marks of any kind. The cloth front cover has some staining and the back too is faintly stained.The inside front and back covers are also yellowed & darker than the inside pages. The inside of the book is in excellent condition and the cover is in good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover.