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SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HOLIDAY (MUSIC.) Holiday, Billie; with William Dufty. Lady Sings the Blues. Illustrated endpapers. 250 pages. 8vo, contemporary cloth, minor wear, two small paper adhesions on front board; inscribed on front flyleaf "For Bob, Sincerely, Billie Holiday." In unclipped dust jacket priced at $3.75 with minor wear at extremities. Garden City, NY, 1956
Holiday died just three years after publishing this autobiography, at the age of 44. This copy is inscribed to "Bob," and was acquired from the dealer Lorne Bair, who stated that Bob "was an amateur Bay Area musician and fellow drug addict who would later become director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic." Blockson 8050.
