[Rarebooks] FS: Concert poster--Bangor, Maine Tenor

[Bob Petrilla]

Wells, John Barnes. WITH CHAPMAN CONCERT COMPANY, SEE LOCAL PAPER FOR
DATES: JOHN BARNES WELLS, TENOR. [faint stamp] City Hall, Bangor / Tuesday
Evening / January 24, 1911. NY: John E. Meyer Press, 1911. Original
edition. Poster, printed in black and red, with a large photographic
portrait of Wells at center. Light foxing along left margin. 13.5" x 10.75"
Very Good.
"John Barnes Wells, a tenor vocalist, was featured on many 78-rpm
recordings released in the early decades of the 20th century. He also
performed in musical theater productions of this era such as a 1903 version
of The Wizard of Oz and an Uncle Tom's Cabin constructed on the Broadway
stage less than two years prior to Wells' death [in 1935]." (Eugene
Chadbourne, allmusic.com) $50.00

Trade discount 20%, postpaid in US



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