Night Clubs

JIMMY AND JACK KOFOED DURANTE

Publication: Alfred A Knopf, 1931, New York

First edition. Fine bright copy with pictorially designed front and rear endpapers and eight photographic plates. A fine bright copy with the topstain unfaded and bright in a fresh dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and with a few tiny tears and nicks to the extremities. Overall a near fine copy. A celebration of the night club racket by American actor, comedian, and musician Jimmy Durante (1893-1980). "Hoofers, blues singers, prostitutes, gangsters, cigarette girls, the bare-legged ladies of the chorus, chisellers, spenders – all the motley and interesting throng who keep the white lights burning, play important roles in this story of Broadway...In this book [Durante] reveals everything that goes on behind the scenes – the comedy and tragedy and plain hard work" (from the front flap). Provenance: From the library of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, himself a frequent visitor of the night club circuit.

Inventory Number: 52925