The Minstrel Show or Burnt Cork Comicalities: A Collection of Comic Songs, Jokes, Stump Speeches, Monologues, Interludes, and Afterpieces for Minstrel Entertainments. Written and Compiled by Ed. Marble. ("Casey at the Bat")

first edition Softcover

1900 · [New York

by MARBLE, Edward
[New York: possibly M. J. Ivers & Co, 1900. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus, with additional contributions. 12mo. 36pp. Illustrated advertisements. Tan pictorial self-wrappers printed in black with front cover reproducing a cameo vignette drawing of an African-American minstrel figure, holding a book and gesturing dramatically. Covers and text are tanned, lightly soiled and foxed due to cheap wood-pulp paper, slight separation at spine edges but the binding is tight, with a small mended tear at lower corner of spine, a very good copy.

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