first edition
1953 · New York
by CROSBY, Bing (with Pete Martin)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 344pp; illus. Faint tape shadows to front and rear endpapers, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped, trifle rubbed at extremities; Very Good+.
A quite good show business memoir, simply by virtue of Crosby's having worked in nearly every genre of American popular entertainment during the first half of the 20th century. Includes chapters on Crosby's early vaudeville career and his time as a vocalist with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, with some brief accounts of legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. (Inventory (truncated)
A quite good show business memoir, simply by virtue of Crosby's having worked in nearly every genre of American popular entertainment during the first half of the 20th century. Includes chapters on Crosby's early vaudeville career and his time as a vocalist with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, with some brief accounts of legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. (Inventory (truncated)
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