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Lady Sings The Blues (Autobiography) LEGENDARY JAZZ SINGER, in Dustjacket, CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, STATED  1st  Edition, Published in 1956, when BILLIE Holiday was 41 years old, 9 years after her incarceration in Alderson Federal Prison Camp for narcotics offences,

Lady Sings The Blues (Autobiography) LEGENDARY JAZZ SINGER, in Dustjacket, CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, STATED 1st Edition, Published in 1956, when BILLIE Holiday was 41 years old, 9 years after her incarceration in Alderson Federal Prison Camp for narcotics offences,

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Lady Sings The Blues (Autobiography) LEGENDARY JAZZ SINGER, in Dustjacket, CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, STATED 1st Edition, Published in 1956, when BILLIE Holiday was 41 years old, 9 years after her incarceration in Alderson Federal Prison Camp for narcotics offences,

by Billie Holiday, with William Dufty photographic endpapers IN B/W of Holiday, Inner DJ Flap .75 WITH some Separation at FOLD

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HBDJ, Stated 1st Edition, 1956 ON HALF TITLE & COPYRIGHT ,1st Impression, ,Red cloth Titled on Spine Cover in B/W VG+/GOOD , Cover & SPINE light rub, wear Scuff, 250 pgs, Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox. DJ HAS RUB, WEAR SCUFFING ETC & TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS, a bit of spine lean, some bumping at board and spine extremities, a few scuff marks to boards, rubbing/fading to spine, pages clean & unmarked & a bit age-tanned; dust wrapper has chipping and tears at head & foot of spine and inside flap fold corners, shelfwear at edges, white tape at top right of front panel, some tape repair to verso, scuffing to panels, rubbing to spine" TAPE RESIDUE TOP FRONT DJ CORNER , 9 years after her incarceration in Alderson Federal Prison Camp for narcotics offences, and 3 years before her untimely death of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of only 44. pulls few punches in addressing her troubled childhood experiences of sexual abuse and prostitution, her heroin addiction, her drinking, her imprisonment on narcotics charges, her sex life and her relationships with abusive men.includes a Billie Holiday discography, and a number of monochrome photographs on the front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers.

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Lady Sings The Blues (Autobiography) LEGENDARY JAZZ SINGER, in Dustjacket, CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, STATED 1st Edition, Published in 1956, when BILLIE Holiday was 41 years old, 9 years after her incarceration in Alderson Federal Prison Camp for narcotics offences,
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Billie Holiday, with William Dufty photographic endpapers IN B/W of Holiday, Inner DJ Flap $3.75 WITH some Separation at FOLD
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photographic endpapers IN B/W of Holiday,
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STATED 1ST
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Doubleday, Garden City NY
Date Published
1956
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Keywords
DRUGS PRISON NARCOTICS Billie Holiday, Singer JAZZ MUSIC BLACKS AFRICan americans

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