Biography. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fred Lawrence Guiles, Author. McGraw-Hill Publishers, 1969. The dust jacket is faded, inside the dust jacket, it is age toned, the jacket shows light shelfwerar and several small tears on the top and bottom of the spine area, the book itself is very good. The boards are navy cloth with silver lettering. Printed in the USA. The endpages are hot pink. Book Club Edition. Pages are age toned (lightly tanned). Total 373 pages. The spine is tight and straight, the pages are free of markings and tears. Norma Jean, is better known as Marilyn Monroe. "For the first time it brings Marilyn Monroe"s life clearly into focus and explains much about her that, up to now, has been too hush-hush to be told. Once begun, it is not to be put down. It is like finding a new novel by Dickens." A remarkable "serious, solid and intelligent biography, a work of dedicated research, about a movie heroine, both famious and notorious in the folk mind, who appears in these pages as fascinating, complex, charming, entertaining, pathetic and eventually tragic." Another great book you will want to add to your Marilyn Monroe collection. This book is not easy to find just in any used bookstore, so don"t wait too long to order this one from us at our special and competitive price. *9BC1