The Basketball Diaries
Third Edition
By: Jim Carroll
Republished: 1987
Publisher: Penguin
Format: Paperback
Cover photograph: Rosemary Carroll
Cover design: Melissa Jacoby
Hand-coloring: Neil Stuart
The Penguin (third) edition of The Basketball Diaries uses Rosemary Klemfuss/Carroll’s photograph of Carroll–the same photograph used for the first edition–but the art direction is different and the photo background is “colorized.” It has no blurbs.