Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

368 369 370 369 c   (THEATER.) Coming Soon! Parsons & Pool’s Original Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Illustrated broadside, 24 x 9 inches; missing 4 inches from upper left corner with slight loss of text, worn in lower margin, a few tasteful repairs. Providence, RI: Whatcheer Print, circa 1880s [400/600] Illustrated with a large woodcut showing scenes from the play.This long-running production claimed to be “the only company on the road to-day presenting the old-time manuscript version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Also on the bill were theTennessee Jubilee Singers,who formed to raise funds for Fisk University and then oper- ated as a joint-stock touring group after 1879. 370 c   (THEATER.) Rogers & Williams’ Topical Success! Let It Alone Songster. [16] pages. 4to (11 x 8 inches), original picto- rial wrappers, worn and lightly dampstained, fragile and splitting at spine; toning and min- imal wear to contents. NewYork:WilliamW. Delaney, circa 1906 [400/600] A compilation of popular song lyrics by music publisherWilliamW. Delaney. He featured a pho- tograph of theWilliams &Walker duo on the cover, and the first song presented is “Let It Alone” from their vaudeville show Abyssinia. None traced in OCLC or at auction.