Moonwalk: A Memoir.

JACKSON, Michael.

Item Number: 141495

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1988.

First edition of this legendary singer’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Michael Jackson on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney G. Cookman. Jacket photograph by Sam Emerson. Rare and desirable signed.

In this intimate and often moving personal account of Michael Jackson’s public and private life, he recalls a childhood that was both harsh and joyful but always formidable. Michael and his brothers played amateur music shows and seamy Chicago strip joints until Motown’s corporate image makers turned the Jackson 5 into worldwide superstars. He talks about the happy prankster days of his youth, traveling with his brothers, and of his sometimes difficult relationships with his family over the years. He speaks candidly about the inspiration behind his music, his mesmerizing dance moves, and the compulsive drive to create that has made him one of the biggest stars in the music business and a legend in his own time.