![Item #4346 [ENTERTAINMENT] [PROGRAM] THE WORLD FAMOUS LATIN QUARTER NEW YORK; "THE VENUS TOUCH'](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4346.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721683286)
New York: 1963. Wraps. 26 X 19.5 cm. The Latin Quarter, located on Broadway at 48th Street originally opened up in the early 1900s as the Palais Royal, and later renamed Cotton Club in 1936. It wasn't until renowned nightclub promoter Lou Walters, father of television royalty, Barbara Walters, took..... More
![Item #4347 [MENU] [PROGRAM] THE WORLD FAMOUS COTTON CLUB; THE COTTON CLUB Presents Dan Healy's...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4347.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721683324)
New York: 1936. Wraps. 2 pages. 33 X 26 cm. After the Harlem Riot of 1935, the Cotton Club was forced to close. It later reopened in Midtown at Broadway and 48th Street. Ironically, the club began to admit Black customers at the new location. Before the move to 48th..... More
New York: E.P. DUTTON & CO., INC., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 82 pages. 30 x 22 cm. Al Hirschfel (1903-2003) spent a year exploring the Speak Easies of NYC during prohibition. Here he documents the portraits, anecdotes, and cocktail recipes (along with Gordon Kahn). Hirschfeld's insights into the human condition..... More
![Item #3979 [LGBTQIA+] I WAS A WHITE SLAVE IN HARLEM. Margo Howard-Howard, Abbe Michaels](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699997564)
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. 177 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Signed by co-author Abbe Michaels with Howard-Howard's ink stamp signature above it (Howard-Howard died shortly before publication). 5 photo plates. Drag queen Margo Howard-Howard, born Robert Hesse, chronicles their descent into a subculture of..... More
New York: John Day Company, 1930. Hardcover. 266 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Witness the culinary scene in New York City during the Jazz Age. James, a columnist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle galloped through the city - exploring over 120 establishments - including Sardi's, the Algonquin, the Cotton Club..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Paperback. 136 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Newton explores the distinctions that drag queens make among themselves as performers, the various kinds of night clubs and acts they depend on for a living, and the social organization of their work. Illustrated throughout. Interior crisp..... More