Lost & Found: The Story of Hank Williams' Lost Daughter.
Nashville: Adjett Productions, Publishers, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 343pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with small chips at spine tail. Item #48228
ISBN: 9780615285870
Tight, attractive first edition of this memoir by the illegitimate daughter of the Country Western legend, born just days after his death in 1953 at age 29 -- this copy inscribed huge and bold by the author in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "To: Sharon Tranel / Jett Williams / With Love." Interestingly, facing this on front pastedown is a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed huge and bold in black fineline by FARON YOUNG, who dates it 28 November 1984 at upper right. Young (1932-96) was "The Hillbilly Heartthrob," an American country music singer remembered for such hits as "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" and "Hello Walls"; elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000; committed suicide. In 1952 Young was dating Billie Jean Jones when she caught the eye of Hank Williams, who ended up arranging a double date with Young and Jones. Jones later became the second Mrs. Hank Williams! Young's original transmittal envelope laid in.
Price: $75.00