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Burlesque and the New Bump-N-Grind by Michelle Baldwin Publisher Comments Michelle Baldwin (aka, Vivienne VaVoom) brings the lost art of burlesque back to the forefront of pop culture.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands: The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to Glee by Mike Weaver Publisher Comments Featuring more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the United States in photos, quotations, and stories, this edutainment-style book details the pop culture and theater influences that, over time, built this unique entertainment genre into the... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott Publisher Comments NATIONAL BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir Publisher Comments A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Gypsy by Mark Crispin Miller Publisher Comments A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.31 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Gospel According To Viva Las Vegas by Viva Las Vegas Publisher Comments Celebrated as a “Diva of the Demimonde [who writes] a love song to life on the shady side” (Katherine Dunn, Geek Love), Viva Las Vegas, the award-winning author of Magic Gardens and “The Last Days of My Left Breast,” returns with a collection of... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bettie Page Rules by Jim Silke Publisher Comments If ever there were reason to believe in love at first sight, that reason would be Bettie Page. From the moment the first pin-ups of Bettie appeared, the world fell in love. Even now, a half-century after those first pictures were published, men desire... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies by Lauren Redniss Publisher Comments The Ziegfeld Follies, Florenz Ziegfeld's stage spectaculars, promised the best performers, the most lavish sets, and the most ravishing girls. Doris Eaton Travis was one of these prized beauties–and, at 14, was chosen as the youngest chorus girl in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reminiscing with Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake by Robert Kimball Publisher Comments Based on extensive interviews, Reminiscing with Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake recounts the lives and music of singer-lyricist-band leader Noble Sissle (1889-1975) and ragtime-composer Eubie Blake (1883-1983).Their 57-year partnership began in 1915, when... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel Publisher Comments Hailed as an "endlessly fascinating biography of an extraordinary woman" (Daily Express) and "a page turner" (Independent), Noralee Frankel's lively biography illuminates the fascinating career of Gypsy Rose Lee, a woman who created and recreated her own... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business by Ethan Mordden Publisher Comments Any girl who twists her hat will be fired! – Florenz Ziegfeld And no Ziegfeld girl ever did as she made her way down the gala stairways of the Ziegfeld Follies in some of the most astonishing spectacles the American theatergoing public ever... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott Publisher Comments With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott pioneered sizzle history (USA Today). Now she returns with the gripping and expansive story of America's coming-of-age — told through the extraordinary life of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Burlesque: Exotic Dancers of the 50s and 60s by Judson Rosebush Synopsis Presented here are 125 burlesque queens and belly dancing stars from the 1950s and 1960s portrayed in 8" x 10" glossy "booking photos." These attention-grabbing and sometimes startling photos are the publicity shots that dancers handed out to booking... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel Publisher Comments Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my — ah — best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens by Liz Goldwyn Publisher Comments Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel Publisher Comments Provides an insightful biography of this famed striptease artist and the unique life she lived as a sex object, film star, writer of two plays, mystery novelist, artist, and political activist.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family from Florenz Ziegfeld to Arthur Murray and Beyond by Eaton Travis Doris Publisher Comments With Joseph and Charles Eaton As Told to J.R. Morris At age fourteen, Doris Eaton was the youngest performer in the Ziegfeld Follies, appearing with such legends as Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Will Rogers, and Marilyn Miller. With two sisters and two... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon Publisher Comments This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Burlesque Handbook by Jo Weldon Publisher Comments The Burlesque Handbookis the essential manual to understanding and performing both classic and neo-burlesque. Written by Jo Weldon, award-winning founder of the New York School of Burlesque, this book features easy-to-follow suggestions and exercises for... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Fan Letters to a Stripper: A Patti Waggin Tale by Bob Brill Synopsis In the 1940s and 1950s, strip artist Patti Waggin was billed as The Educated Torso, The Sex Oomph Girl, and the Fresh Faced Girl Next Door. Amazingly athletic, performing routines few others could manage, Patti was a "Headliner." She was also one of the... (read more) List Price $49.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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