BLACK MAGIC: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. First Edition (NAP). Hardcover. Quarto. Quarter-bound red and black cloth over boards. One bumped corner. Light shelfwear to boards. Offset stains to preliminaries. Dustjacket shows shelfwear, one taped repair and a photograph of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, by Carl Van Vechten to front panel. Original $12.95 price to front dj flap. 375 pp. including index. Very Good Minus in Good Dustjacket. Item #88105
"...A 300-year history of Negro folk music and entertainment. It has been called "simply, a truly tremendous work of art, history, of interpretation of our Negro peoople into the American scene as a whole. / It is the complete story, heavily supported with pictures and drawings, of the Negro's contribution to (primarily) music and the stage, a contribution so immense as to be pretty well beyond separation from what has become generally accepted as overall American music and stage..." (From a newspaper review 12-17-67, laid in).
Price: $50.00