Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy's Story
London: Cassell & Company, 1955.
First British edition. Signed by Big Bill Broonzy on the half title in blue ink. xii, 139 pp. with eight pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a bright unclipped dust jacket, hint of shelfwear, else Fine. A rare signed copy of the influential blues guitarist and singer's autobiography. His career spanned from the 1920s to the '50s, as the blues became popularized and then (in Chicago, where he passed away) electrified.
Price: $2,000
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