Vaudeville for a Princess
first edition
(1950) · New York
by SCHWARTZ, Delmore
New York: New Directions, (1950). First edition (1600 copies printed). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend Anatole Broyard, "For Anatole / from Delmore." Broyard was a prominent critic and book reviewer for the New Yorker and the New York Times, a teacher [Columbia University, The New School and New York University), and author, whose memoir Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir was published posthumously in 1993. After his death, Broyard, a man of mixed race born of Louisiana Creole parents in New Orleans in 1920, was criticized for concealing his race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an article first published as "White Like Me" in the New Yorker in 1996, and later in an expanded version of the essay published under the title "The Passing of Anatole Broyard" in Gates's book Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Black Man (1997). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 22070)