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. Marbl

by MARBLE, Edward

$3,750 · Offered by Between the Covers

[New York? possibly M. J. Ivers & Co., circa 1893-1900]. Softcover. 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..... More

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