BRICKTOP.
London, Published by Atheneum, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. pp.xviii + 301.Index. Photographs in black & white. Very good quarter red cloth papered boards hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper A fine copy. Item #193581
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith better known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the famous nightclub "Chez Bricktop" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.
She has been called "one of the most legendary and enduring figures of twentieth-century American cultural history"
From prohibition Harlem to cafe society Paris. The queen of the nightclubs tells the exhuberant story of a fabulous life.
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