Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 551

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(THEATRE--VAUDEVILLE.) BERT WILLIAMS. Bert Williams, Son of Laughter Edited by Mabel Rowland. A Symposium of Tribute to the Man and His Work, by his Friends and Associates, with a Preface by David Belasco. Frontispiece and additional illustrations ions throughout. 8vo, original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket with some wear, approximately one inch square chip to head of the spine; non-authorial gift presentation on front paste-down. New York: The English Crafters, (1923)

Additional Details

first edition. A very scarce book under any circumstances but almost never found in a dust jacket. A collection of tributes to the great vaudevillian, including Ring Lardner, W. E. B. Du Bois, Leon Errol, Jessie Fauset, Gearge M Cohan, W. C. Fields and many others.