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Sat, Nov 20, 2021 12:00PM EST
Lot 103

[MINSTRELSY]. A collection of books, pulps, programs, and p...

Estimate: $250 - $350

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[MINSTRELSY]. A collection of books, pulps, programs, and photographs. American and British, 1880s-1920s. Including a dozen volumes of minstrel show monologues, show guides, jokes, songs, and recitations [cloth or paper wrappers, generally 8vo]; five snapshots of an actor in blackface, identified on the verso as Edward Hudson; five minstrel show programs and handbills; 1000 Men of Minstrelsy (1909), booklet, Edward Le Roy Rice; and Stephen Foster: Minstrel-Show Songs (Da Capo, 1980), ed. Hitchcock.