[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Billie Holiday LADY SINGS THE BLUES

[Charles Agvent]

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HOLIDAY, Billie and DUFFY, William. LADY SINGS THE BLUES. Garden City: 
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Early but not first 
printing of this autobiography of perhaps the most influential jazz 
singer of all time, illustrated with photographic endpapers and 
containing a chronological discography at the end. Co-authored by 
William Duffy, this book was made into a film starring Diana Ross as 
Holiday. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/singer vertically on the 
front blank filling the page: "For Pearl/Stay Happy always/Billie 
Holiday." A very scarce signature, especially in a book. Slight wear at 
spine tips. Near Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dustwrapper with 
some rubbing and edgewear. (#017844)        $7,500.00

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