London, Princes Theatre 1961 Stapled wrappers.7.25x5” 24pp.#####'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is on record as highlighting the show as his favorite musical. 'King Kong' subsequently opened at London's Princes Theatre on February 23rd 1961 and ran for 201 performances.#####With an all-black cast, the pl... View More...
1st ed., 8vo, 3/4 pebble-grained leather, gilt titles, ribbed spine, t.e.g. ; marbled end papers. (xviii 372pp.) With 31 full-page plates, including one fold-out; 15 colored, plus colored frontispiece. Tissue guards on all of the colored plates. The special binding here is contemporary not modern; signed Lippincott’s. Bourke fought in the Civil War and was awarded the Medal of Honor. He then attended West Point after the war, became an officer, and served as a cavalry officer in the American West and Indian Wars until his death. He wrote this book about the Moquis Pueblos of Arizona Territor... View More...
A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD.#####4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia.With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of live concert music and a Record Plant jam CONDITION: A new copy, with CD pocket still sealed. However, a former store display copy with some light surface wear to the cover and slipcase... View More...
Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold. #####Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). #####Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper verso, corners lightly rubbed; spine somewhat darkened with ends moderately rubbed; front hinge lightly cracked but fully intact. Internally... View More...
1st ed., 8vo., beige cloth, 360 pp. This early jazz history focuses on the important hot spots and musicians of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York. 56 photographs; comprehensive index. CONDITION: Near fine in fair dustjacket. A clean, tight copy: prior owner’s penciled signature on front end paper, some browning in the hinges; contemporary bookshop label inside back cover [and transfer to facing page]; no tears, chips, or rubbing. The jacket is complete, not price-clipped but has numerous edge tears up to 1”, chipped a spine ends; soiled back panels. View More...
14x10.75", 6 pp.Huldah Pierce Warren Bump (1849 – 1878) better known as Minnie Warren, was an American proportionate dwarf and an entertainer associated with P. T. Barnum. Her sister Lavinia Warren was married to General Tom Thumb. They were very well known in 1860s America and their meeting with Abraham Lincoln was covered in the press. Warren died from complications in childbirth on July 23, 1878. Front cover illustrated with a sepia lithograph of Warren standing;you can license the image from Getty Images for $495 or you can own it outright hereOne in WorldCat [John Hopkins Univ.]; another ... View More...
