Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Lucy de Barbin & Dary Matera
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (First Edition in Original Dust Jacket)
The Controversial Memoir of a Claimed Twenty-Four-Year Affair with Elvis Presley and the Daughter He Never Knew
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Are You Lonesome Tonight?: The Untold Story of Elvis Presley's One True Love and the Child He Never Knew
- Authors: Lucy de Barbin & Dary Matera
- Publisher: Villard Books, New York
- Publication Date: 1987
- ISBN-13: 9780394557120
- ISBN-10: 0394558421
- Edition Details: First Edition.
- Binding: Publisher's maroon cloth boards with a cream cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Octavo hardcover, roughly 235 x 155 mm. Standard text without plates or maps.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Good (G)
- Exterior / Boards: The maroon cloth boards and cream cloth spine are clean, with sound corners. The top edge of the text block is toned.
- Interior: The text block is tight and sound. The pages show toning and age-yellowing, with a few small marks on the fore-edge. The sample page examined is clean and legible, with no markings.
- The Dust Jacket: Present, but worn. The spine head is chipped and frayed with a small tear near the head, and the spine foot is rubbed and frayed. There is a small chip or tear to the top edge of the front panel, light soiling and rubbing, and a small spot on the front image. Label or sticker residue is visible at the lower spine. The jacket is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover. Jacket grade: Good (G).
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published by Villard Books in New York in 1987, Are You Lonesome Tonight? is Lucy de Barbin's account of a turbulent twenty-four-year affair with Elvis Presley. Written with Dary Matera, it also tells of a daughter, Desirée, whom the author says Presley never knew.
The book caused considerable controversy on publication. Officials of the Presley estate and some of his friends denounced the claims as a fabrication, and the story drew wide press attention in 1987. Its interest today lies in that dispute and in its place in the long literature that grew up around the singer's private life.
This is a first edition in its original illustrated dust jacket, offered as a collectible copy for those who gather Elvis Presley literature and the more contentious corners of twentieth-century celebrity biography.
Author Profile: Lucy de Barbin & Dary Matera
Lucy de Barbin, born in 1936, was described in a 1987 press report as a fashion designer. Her account of her relationship with Elvis Presley was presented alongside her daughter Desirée Presley.
Her co-author Dary Matera was born in 1955 and worked as a journalist.
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