Description William Morrow, New York, 1984, 1st edition, 2nd pr. ISBN 0-688-02621-4. Hard cover, 461 pages including Index. Cream boards with gold lettering on white cloth spine; bit of corner wear, a few small spots on white cloth; binding sound with head and tail bands. Price-clipped dust jacket has edge and cover wear, tears and repairs on verso; stain on verso at spine head; age toning; black & white illustration of author on rear panel. Book interior clean and unmarked with black & white photos; a few small spots on outer page block. ‘… never shrinks from revealing himself, and allows us to discover the vital artist and the real person behind the brutal headlines and supermarket scribblings. What we discover is the human being; what we come to understand is the man himself. And how, exactly, life happened to Roman Polanski.’ (from rear flap)