The book is signed on the first page, "Love to you Anita, Charley Pride 10/19/94." There is a picture of Charley signing the book. I purchased this book already signed. I did not witness the signing and have not had it authenticated. I have only compared it to known signatures. On the very back page are two more signatures, "Preston Buchanan and Tony Reid." There was a Preston Buchanan that joined Charley in his band, The Pridesmen, in 1969 and later became Pride's band leader. I don't know if this is the same person. I also have no information about Tony Reid.
There is also a ticket stub used as a bookmark from a Roy Clark event the day after this book was signed.
FROM GOOGLE BOOKS
From an impoverished childhood in Sledge, Mississippi, Charley Pride ascended into the pantheon of country music, winning three Grammys, selling thirty million records in the United States alone, and garnering thirteen gold albums - more than Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, or Merle Haggard. In May 1993, he became the seventieth member of the Grand Ole Opry. But what sets this fascinating autobiography apart from other memoirs is the fact that Charley Pride is the only black superstar in the white galaxy of country music. Pride's initial ticket out of poverty was baseball. It was while playing for a Missoula, Montana, semipro team that he got his first paying gig, singing in a country-western bar; shortly after, he was discovered, gaining an audition in Nashville during the most bitter and polarized years of the civil rights struggle. When he was signed by RCA in 1956, his records began to sell immediately; he has ridden the charts for the twenty-five years since, toured worldwide, and set attendance records at concerts. This forthright autobiography offers fresh, disarmingly funny insights on being a highly conspicuous anomaly and making it work. Charley Pride's constant struggle for acceptance, singing in the only way he knows how, has enriched his life and made him an enlightened, charismatic force. Now one of Nashville's elder statesmen, Pride has lived through Music City's ongoing waves of turnover - and has earned himself a permanent place in country music's history.