Roman by Roman Polanski [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1984

Roman by Roman Polanski 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1984] WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY

Rare and long out of print!   Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Dust jacket has some light wear; tanning and a minor water stain.   Now housed in a brand new HD protective mylar jacket. 

Book has some image ghosting to boards from dust jacket; as well as a water stain to bottom of cloth on spine.  Contents are clean and read good as new; tiny spot stain to text block; otherwise excellent. 

Roman Polanski reveals in detail the mosaic of his life. He talks of his childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland; Lodz Film School in the 1950s; Paris in his early struggles to become recognized as a director; and London and Hollywood in the 60s when he first won international acclaim.

We follow him through his marriages and friendships; and with him we experience the full force of the tragedy that struck when his wife Sharon Tate and several close friends were brutally murdered by the Manson family.

There followed years of disenchantment and self enquiry; arrest and imprisonment on charges alleging the rape of a minor, and finally his professional and personal resurgence in France.