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[New York: Jimmy Kelly's], no date, ca 1945. Tall 4to, 28 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Original pictorial stiff paper wraps, stapled. Laid in is a printed card (35" x 45") advising a "two-fifty per person" minimum after 10:30 pm due to the "elaborate entertainment." Moderately soiled & toned, brief edge wear, light rubbing, shallow corner creases throughout, otherwise Good or better A splendid "journal" given "as a memento of your visit to the Montmartre of New York" Proprietor Jimmy Kelly, born Giovanni de Silvo (or John DeSilvio), cut his teeth as a boxer, gangster, & Tammany Hall operative before turning to the nightclub business. Opening Jimmy Kelly's in 1921, the New York Times noted that his "Blue Ribbon 100-minute Floor Show" … in which "boys and girls (but chiefly girls) stamp, tap, croon, harmonize and contortion-dance their way without pausing for a long breath had the customers packing in to small space."

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928. First British edition. 8vo, 376 pp plus 24 plates. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in printed dust jacket.
Offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, sporadic minor foxing mostly at the edges of the textblock, small booksellers' rubber stamp at front pastedown, very good or better in soiled dust jacket with old tape repairs on the verso, browned at the spine, with edge wear including with losses & tears (including a 1.5" x 2" loss mid spine not affecting text), certainly good or so.A splendid autobiography by Ms Duncan; communist, bisexual, atheist, who once waved a red scarf & bared a breast on stage in Boston, proclaiming, "This is red! So am I!"

New York: B Martin Pedersen/ Graphis Press, (1997) First edition. Folio, 218, [3] pp, profusely illustrated from photographs (some color). Publisher's black paper over boards backed in black cloth lettered in blind on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Three corners lightly bruised, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket with a couple of tears without loss adjacent to the spine, light edge wear, & old cello tape on the verso (seemingly without purpose), about very good "It isn't enough to say that Howard Schatz admires dancers He adores them Schatz' pictures are not about dance; they are photographs of dancers as phenomenal objects: graceful and powerful; explosive or ecstatic in motion, elegant and elemental while at rest There is more to dance than bodies, but without bodies there is no dance And however much natural beauty a dancer may have, years of training and a daily regimen that might break an Olympic rower, produce human forms that are nothing less than masterpieces of kinetic… Read More

Beaufort, South Carolina: Foundation Books for Fast Dance, Inc, (1995) "Collector's Edition," one of 2500 copies, this copy inscribed, signed & dated by the author in black marker at the title page & adjacent leaf. Oblong quarto (9.5" x 12.25"), 120 pp, profusely illustrated in color & black & white from photographs. Publisher's dark gray cloth lettered in silver, in pictorial dust jacket. Laid in is is a prospectus which notes the print run, describes the book, & provides ordering instructions Unobtrusive soft crease at title page, otherwise a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light edge wear including a couple of short tears (one with old tape repair on the verso) "This is the Shag Book that everyone always hoped would be written some day Interweaving extraordinary photos from as far back as the 40's with the magical story of the Shag's origins and history, author Bo Bryan conveys the almost mythic glamour that surrounds the dance." ~Excerpted from the prospectus

Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, CA. November 3, 1978. Small 4to, single sheet typed, approximately 126 words, on beige watermarked notepaper Boldly signed "Ginger" in blue ink by Miss Rogers. With the original typed, stamped, & canceled matching envelope.
Folded for mailing, slightly soiled, otherwise near fine in neatly opened envelope.
Addressing dancer/ performer Larry Merritt, Miss Rogers provides her upcoming schedule & requests Mr Merritt's reply, noting that she had "tried to get you via telephone, but unfortunately you were never in!"
Ginger Rogers is ranked number 14 on the American Film Institute's list of female stars of classic American cinema.