Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment

New York: Smithsonian, 2010. First Edition. Quarto. Silver cloth boards in dust jacket; 265pp. Author's inscription to title page, signed by Zita D. Allen. Mild age toning to margins of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Trivial shelf wear to jacket. Near Fine. Published by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, covering, at time of publication, the 75 year history of the Apollo Theater.