[Rarebooks] FS: Fine early Autograph Letter from Harry Belafonte to his agent

[Charles Agvent]

BELAFONTE,  Harry. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. A fine,  early  letter
from  Belafonte  to his agent, Jay Kennedy, of @75 words  on  Fairmont
Hotel,  San Francisco, stationery. In full: "Well we did it again: All
the  reviews have finally come in and they are all good. We also broke
Lena's  record  who  broke  Nat King Cole's  record  only  last  week.
Enclosed  is  first check. I didn't know we also had a  fifty  percent
deal.  You never cease to amaze me. I'll try to break the record again
this  week.  I'm  also in the midst of 'Songs Lincoln Loved.'  All  my
love  to Janet, Susie and you." SIGNED "Your Harry." Belafonte, one of
the  world's most popular entertainers starring not only in music  but
in  the  theater  and film as well, was also the first, and  for  some
time  the  only,  black producer in television and the  first  African
American  to  receive  an Emmy award. Though not dated  by  Belafonte,
Kennedy  has penciled a 1955 date at the top, right about the time the
singer  was  becoming  a popular success and beginning  to  experiment
with  calypso music, a craze which would soon sweep the nation much as
the  "twist" did some years later. Some wrinkling but still Very  Good
or better.                                                     $350.00

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