[Rarebooks] FS: Irish and Negro stereotypes in a scarce minstrel sketch

[Bob Petrilla]

Wallace, F.K. PETE AND THE PEDLER: A Negro and Irish Sketch. DeWitt's
Ethiopian and Comic Drama. Arranged by Charles White. NY: DeWitt Publishing
House, 1876. First Edition. pp: 6, (2) publisher's ads; small drawing of
stage setting. As first performed by Harrison's Minstrels at Germania Hall,
Leavenworth, Kansas in 1863. To which are added a Description of the
Costumes, Cast of the Characters, Entrances and Exits, Relative Positions
of the Performers on the Stage, and the Whole of the Stage Business.  7.75"
x 4.75" Very Good. Original Wrappers.
Charles White (1821-1891), who arranged this comic drama, was an early
blackface minstrel entertainer as well as a prolific author. [See Brown,
Early History of Negro Minstrelsy, for a biography of White. WorldCat
locates only three holdings: Harvard, UC-Davis, Chicago. Blockson records
several other "Negro burlesques" arranged by White, not this one.]
(#036310)        $75.00


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