About this title: Billie Holiday's autobiography LADY SINGS THE BLUES may be largely the stuff of invention, but the major points she covers here ring true, from the racism she encountered on her grueling road trips with Count Basie's band to the venal attitudes of club promoters and agents. Brought up for part of her adolescence in a Catholic reform school, Holiday moved to Brooklyn upon her release and, after a short stint as a prostitute, started singing in New York clubs in the early 1930s. Her gradual rise to prominence came slowly, first with stints with Count Basie's Orchestra, then with Artie Shaw, ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Lancer Books
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. Movie Tie-In. Book has foxed edges and bumped corners. Creased on front cover. Well read. Normal wear and tear. Some yellowing. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140067620ISBN:0140067620
Description: Acceptable. Moderate shelf wear. Age toning. Page folds and highlights. Creases on front cover with scuffing at top edge. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140067620ISBN:0140067620
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Cover has heavy wear. Spine has creases. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Lancer Books
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good Minus Condition. Heavy creasing and wear to movie cover with Diana Ross. Pages tanning; good reading copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Inventory No: 056800. read more
Edition: 4th printing since 1965 1st Lancer. Complete and Unabridged.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: A Lancer Contempora Book., New York.
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Soiling; creasing to corners. Cover wear. Pages inside clean; no marks. 191 p. Includes illustrations. B&W photo section, 8p. Mass-market PB. Autobiography: 'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen. She was sixteen--and I was three, ' back cover. Movie tie-in: Paramount Pictures Corporation and Berry Gordy; starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor; directed by Sidney J Furie; produced by jay Weston and James S ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140067620ISBN:0140067620
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. A moderate amount of wear on Cover and interior pages. Two micro tears on two pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 203 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprinted with revised Discography in 1992.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140067620ISBN:0140067620
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 203 p. Audience: General/trade. Slight cover marks, but a good clean copy. Pages starting to yellow. This is the biography to read. Billie Holiday tells her own story with candor! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Lancer Books 1972
Date Published: 1972-01-01
Description: Very Good. Uniqiue vintage paperback in great shape. Clean, fresh book with no markings inside or on covers. Some tanning to inside pages, has remainder mark on top, binding like new. Mendopower Employment Services carefully packs each book in high-quality bubble lined, envelopes. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions Mendopower Employment Services carefully packs each book in high-quality bubble lined, envelopes. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions. read more
"If you can get your hands on this one - do it. Short, easy read containing anything but an easy life. Inspiring story of one of the greatest singers of all time (if not the greatest in my opinion)."
"A very interesting biography. It's an easy read, Billie Holiday is an endearing woman, and she's irreverent as hell. If you like biographies at all, read this book, it's super fun."
"I read this in college. It's interesting but I remember reading that a lot of the stuff billie wrote about never happened or was exagerrated. I read it years ago and just caught the movie with Dianna Ross on TV which was awful, simply awful."
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