Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid clean copy, with some minor exposure of boards on the bottom edges of both covers (probably insect nibbling); the jacket shows only light handling wear]. (B&W photographs) This first full-length biography of "the most famous tap dancer who ever lived," discusses his career as a vaudeville headliner, three-time on-screen dance partner of Shirley Temple, and "charmer, gambler, brawler, athlete, and consummate entertainer [who was] behind the crusade for actors' rights, [and] who pushed past the color barrier in the first half of the twentieth century." .