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Lady Sings The Blues

by Billie Holiday With William Dufty

Stated First Edition

[30 Day Return Guarantee] Price: CAD $9,850.00 ($ 9284.61)

Book Description

New York: Doubleday, 1956 Boldly and handsomely SIGNED and inscribed at the first blank page, "To x and y, Stay as fine as you are Billie Holiday". Colourful memoir of the iconic jazz singer's harrowing life and career, ghosted (and abetted) by journalist William Dufty. As Holiday biographer Chris Ingham aptly states, " written during a vogue for sensational life stories as popularized by True Confessions magazine...the book had its eyes on Hollywood and served to perpetuate myths about Billie that were as difficult to disprove as they were to wholeheartedly believe". Very good in red cloth boards, spine ends and fore corners are worn and somewhat frayed, slight loss to gilt spine titles, mild age toning to pages, top edge is a bit dusty, touch of soiling to front board, otherwise clean and unmarked.The difficult dust jacket is a strong very good+, unclipped with original price of $3.95, light wear and rubbing to spine ends, flap edges and extremities, small crease and wear to bottom edge of rear wrap and top corner of front flap, else quite bright, clean and presentable. Rare copy of one of the most sought after of all signed jazz autobiographies. J1419. Signed by Author. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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