Willie: An Autobiography [Signed first edition, first printing] by Willie Nelson with Bud Shrake - 1988

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good +/very good +. A fine first edition, first printing. Inscribed to "Kitty" by the inimitable Willie Nelson on the title page in 1992. Complete number line. Blue paper covered boards under all American red quarter cloth. Deep blue endpapers. In a very near fine, unclipped original dustjacket. 334 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, index. Octavo.Contents: Let me be a man; Family Bible; Night life; Write your own song; I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it; It's not supposed to be that way; On the road again; The healing hands of time, Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captured this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his Depression-era childhood; his stormy marriages; his wild experiences with drugs, booze and women; his long rise to superstardom; and his shared musical and personal experiences with Waylon Jennings, Julio Iglesias, Kris Kristopherson, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt." --Worldcat