Published by Charles Hansen, NYC, 1977
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a VG or better copy in red cover, stapled 32 page booklet. With fold out postcards. 30 song lyrics and music, from Alley Cat to Yankee Doodle.
Published by Longman Canada Limited, Don Mills, Ontario, 1973
ISBN 10: 0399112294 ISBN 13: 9780399112294
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Undated but likely 1973, listing an 8-digit "SBN" rather than an ISBN. A flamboyant and highly talented entertainer, Liberace could not easily be parodied because he was already doing it, himself. Of course the act was kitsch; he knew that. And he also knew what worked. There's much of interest, here, but of course what's omitted is enormous -- even if the publishers promise a "candid" account -- "Here we read the entire personal story." A photo caption tell us "A back injury kept Lee from joining (the) Seabees with George; didn't stop him from entertaining at USO's and in veterans' hospitals." Is spina bifida a "back injury"? And of course there's the whole final chapter on "why I have never married," stringing out the tales of prospective brides who "just didn't work out," including "lovely young heiress Frances Goodrich," whose family "wanted me to quit my show business carer and take over the management of their citrus holdings. Obviously that romance was not sun-kissed." (The prospective father-in-law wanted a man who presumably didn't know how to hold a seedling right-side-up to forgo a million-dollar show-biz career to take over his agricultural holdings?) As late as the 1970s, this wealthy and successful man couldn't simply say, "Because I'm gay, of course; get over it." Photo illustrations on glossy stock but all in B&W. 316 pp. Reduced from $22.
Published by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1973. *, 1973
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
8vo 316 pages. Quarter white cloth and gilt boards, slightly worn, corners and backstrip bumped. Internally VG. Plates.
Seller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, Australia
Melbourne : Crawford Theatre Productions, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [24], illustrated. Includes a feature on Liberace's guest star, fifteen year old Young Talent Time star and Liberace protégé Jamie Redfern. At the time Liberace was the highest paid actor in the world. Unrecorded in Australian libraries.
Published by New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons [1973]., 1973
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First edition, third printing (so stated). 8vo. 53 b/w photographs (including endpapers). Original gilt stamped 1/2 white over gold blindstamped boards. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks). Very good. Autobiography of the famous Wisconsin-born pianist and showman (1919-1987). Boldly signed and inscribed on opposit of title page by Liberace, with an original ink drawing of his signature piano and candelabra: "To Leonard Grant, My Pal!.". Signed by Author(s).