Lady Sings the Blues
by HOLIDAY, BILLIE & DUFTY, WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company, 1956. FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, black and silver lettering to spine, illus., 250pp, VG- (scruffy: heavy scuffing to boards with moderate fraying to top of spine, moderate soiling to boards; moderate tanning to edges, light tanning within; main detraction: pages 99-102 have closed tears with prev. owner's tape repairs, unsightly, leaving tape stains to adjacent pages also) in d/w G+ (substantially complete, back section split from front; heavy scuffing creasing and rubbing; moderately large sections missing to top and bottom of spine, with small triangular sections missing from corner of front, which is, otherwise, substantially complete)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
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- Title
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Author
- HOLIDAY, BILLIE & DUFTY, WILLIAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, 1956
- Keywords
- lady day billie holiday jazz music autobiography memoir singer classic american america united states us usa blues popular african black
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- G+
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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