[MINSTRELSY]. USBM Black Mail ... The Colored Letter Carriers Songster and other books.

DOCKSTADER, Charles R. (1847-1907). The Dockstaders' Colored Letter Carriers Songster; Containing the Greatest Collection of These Champion Stars Best Songs, as Sung by Them in All the Principal Theaters of the United States. New York: New York Popular Publishing Company, 32 Beekman Street, [1881?]. 64pp, approx. 4 x 6 1/2 in. (tears, toning, adhesive remnants, scattered pencil markings). Minstrel songster featuring a rare color depiction of the Dockstader Minstrels as mail carriers. Scarce, OCLC locates only 2 copies, at University of Chicago Library and Brown University.

[With:] TOWNSEND, Charles. Negro Minstrels with End Men's Jokes, Gags, Speeches, etc. Chicago: T.S. Denison & Company, [1891]. -- STRATTON, Wade. When Cork is King. New Crossfire Conversations, End Gags and Retorts for Male, Female and Mixed Minstrels; Monologues, Skits and Stump Speeches. Chicago: T. S. Denison & Company, [1921].

This lot is located in Cincinnati.