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Bricktop / Bricktop with James Haskins.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.B777 A3 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bricktop, 1894-1984.
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bricktop, 1894-1984.
- Singers--United States--Biography.
- Singers.
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.).
- African American women singers.
- United States.
- Europe.
- African American women singers--Biography.
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--Europe.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 300 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits. ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, 1983.
- Contents:
- Early Years
- On the Road
- Saloon Singer
- The War Years
- Prohibition
- Paris
- Cole Porter ... and Josephine Baker
- Bricktop's
- Saloonkeeper par Excellence
- The Golden Era
- And We All Played On
- The Crisis
- New York
- Mexico City
- Return to Paris
- The Holy Hustler
- Hollywood-on-the-Tiber
- Old Warhorse.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Kathleen Carey."
- "Jacket design copyright © 2984 by Muriel Nasser."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0689113498 :
- OCLC:
- 9154523
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