Description

Hardcover, quarto size volume bound in bright red cloth with bold white lettering on spine and image of a semi-nude dancer on front cover, in publisher’s pictorial non price-clipped dust-jacket. 160 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout with over 200 color and black and white photographs. First American edition, first printing (published simultaneously in the UK by Octopus Books). A visual survey of burlesque from the last quarter of the 19th century up through the mid 1970’s. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and near like new copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.