Signet, New York, May 1976, 1st pr thus, unauthorized printing.  MMPB, 180 pages including About the Author.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, small ding at top edge of front wrap, light reading creases.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; 8 pages of nostalgic photos.  ‘He was the greatest public hero in America – and quite possibly its most private person.  He made the impossible look easy on the ballfield – and found casual small talk an ordeal.  He was the straightest and most moral of men – and the adoring husband and perhaps the only true love of the tragic Marilyn Monroe.  He was a human being who became a legend, and who not only lived up to it, but resisted corrupting adulation,’ (from rear wrap)