(LITERATURE AND POETRY) CUNARD NANCY Black Man White Ladyshi

Sale 2137 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 1,320

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) CUNARD, NANCY. Black Man White Ladyship, An Anniversary. 11 pages. Tall 8vo, original red wrappers, printed in black; rear cover sunned with a small stain; slight discoloration and stain to the first page of text. (Toulon, 1931)

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rare first edition, one of a small issue, "Privately Printed, Not For Sale." Cunard's recounting, on the one year anniversary, of a fancy luncheon at her mother's Grosvenor Square home in London where Lady Asquith was heard to ask her mother, "Hello Maud: what is it now--drinks, drugs or niggers?" Nancy who was in Paris at the time, heard of it through the noted composer Sir Thomas Beecham, who wrote her and advised that it would be a grave mistake to come to England with her Negro boyfriend, jazz musician Henry Crowder. "Black Man, White Ladyship" was Nancy's rather elaborate response. Only two copies of this booklet have appeared at auction in the last 27 years.