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Poster: orig. 1956 BILLIE HOLIDAY CONCERT POSTER CARNEGIE HALL only known copy?
25 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019
24 bids
2185
553
United States
Unknown
Jazz & Big Band
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For sale is an exceedingly scarce, original 1956 concert poster for jazz singer Billie Holiday's famous 10 November 1956 "Lady Sings Blues the Blues" concert, with Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge among others. Poster is printed on cardboard and measures approximately 11.25 x 22 inches. It is fresh to the market from the estate of a woman who was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and had a remarkable collection of New York-related books and historical material (please see my other listings in the weeks ahead for more intriguing items from her estate). It found it wedged between some jazz albums in her collection, folded in half.
Condition is poor. It has chipping and loss all along the right hand side, small tears at the borders, some staining at the bottom, mostly only visible in the margin. There is a fold across the middle. While the top and bottom are still attached, they are just barely hanging together. There is wear throughout, indentations, color loss, creasing, etc. There is no way to spin it: it exhibits a ton of wear. Potential bidders, please look closely at the photos at bid accordingly.
This concert poster is exceptionally rare: I can find no other extant copies anywhere, only reference to a single 5.95 x 9 inch handbill with the same image (and condition issues of its own) which sold at Heritage Auctions for $3,750 in March of this year. I doubt there are many, if any other of these posters still in existence. Don't miss out!
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