Description

Doubleday & Company, 1983. Hardcover, 322 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Tan paper-covered boards with black cloth spine lettered in gilt; mild shelf and edge wear, a hint of color loss along edges and at head and foot of spine, and a few small gray flecks near fore-edge of front board. Binding tight. Endpapers mildly toned, with offset from jacket flaps. Deckle fore-edge. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket with John Loengard's Life magazine photograph of Garland on front panel and author photograph by Bob Schulenberg on rear panel; $15.95 price on front flap. A few small nicks and light creasing along edges, mild shelf and edge wear, and some mild toning, most visible on rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Diary-form memoir of the two months in late 1968 that songwriter and cabaret pianist John Meyer (1937-2024) spent with Judy Garland in New York and Boston, months before her death in 1969. Meyer wrote "I'd Like to Hate Myself in the Morning" and "After the Holidays," both introduced by Garland. The account runs from their meeting through a planned engagement to the end of the affair, with Garland's own words recorded in detail, and includes an index. Later reissued by Citadel (2006) and BearManor Media, and adapted for the stage.