Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis Rose - First Edition Hardcover 1989 (Near Fine with Dust Jacket) - Vintage Biography, Jazz History & African American Culture

Rose, Phyllis. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, 8vo, 9 3/8" x 6 3/8", 321 pp. 

ISBN: 0385248911

First Edition, hardcover in brown paper with light brown cloth to spine. Small bump to bottom tips. Very Good pictorial dust jacket, light shelf wear and minor wear to tips, now in Mylar. 321 pp. Includes black-and-white reproductions of historical photographs for reference. From inside the dust jacket: "In this biography of Josephine Baker, Phyllis Rose brings us into the glitter of Paris in the '20s, through Europe transformed by the rise of Hitler, to the last thirty-five years of Baker's life when she became a civil rights activist and adopted twleve children from around the world, whom she called her 'Rainbow Tribe'."