Naked at the Feast : Biography of Josephine Baker

xiv, 338pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Light foxing to top text block edge. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some very light shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Spell-binding biography of the American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist whose career was centred primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. Baker was the first African-American to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 the silent film Siren of the Tropics. Illustrated with black and white photographs.