first edition Hardcover
1956 · Garden City, New York
by Holiday, Billie with William Dufty
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo: 250 pp. with photographic endpapers. Original red cloth binding, with titles stamped in silver and black. Faint stain to the spine heel. Some general edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.
This is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. From Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood, to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, Lady Sings the Blues is notable for (truncated)
This is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. From Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood, to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, Lady Sings the Blues is notable for (truncated)
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