Book has only very light, general wear and aging. Jacket has some mild aging/soiling and a 1 inch closed tear near the top front right corner. This autobiography-memoir by the great jazz tenor saxophone player is signed and dated on the ffep. Freeman played with the well-known Austin High School Gang, a group of young, white musicians from Chicago who created what was called the "Chicago Style." Freeman would go on to play with many big bands including The World's Greatest Jazz Band. This book contains many short reminssences of musicians, bands and other people that Freeman knew and played with. Among those are Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden, Peewee Russell, Lester Young, Dashiell Hammett, Buddy Ebsen and many, many more. This book is an exceptional source of information on early swing and big band jazz. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 125 pages; Signed by Author