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[Burlesque] Lapham, Lewis H.
"A Cold Sunday Afternoon in Baltimore"
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December 12, 1963. Original corrected typescript for a story by Lewis H. Lapham that ultimately appeared (in a revised form) in the March 14, 1964 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. This early version is titled "A Cold Sunday Afternoon in Baltimore." In this piece, Lapham conducts a dedicated troll through the burlesque houses of Baltimore one day in the winter of 1963. The published article was titled, "Whatever Happened to Burlesque?" and was expanded to include visits to burlesque houses throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Lapham later served as editor of Harper's Magazine from 1971 to 2006, and is largely responsible for what became the magazine's modern look, which caused it to gain prominence in that 30-year-period. He introduced many signature features of the magazine, most notably the famed "Harper's Index."
18 non-numbered pages, bound with a paper clip. With profuse holograph corrections on every page by the author, the piece details the nature of the houses themselves (and their odd uses during non-burlesque hours), the strippers and dancers, the customers (nearly all men, "all in overcoats"), the owners, and the onlookers. A wonderful piece of period Baltimoreana from one of the best essayists of his generation. Very Good or better condition. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. [Book #111705]
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