Complete Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master, Containing a Full List of Calls for All the Latest Square Dances, Including Many of the Old Ones, with Measures of Time and Steps Required. Also a Complete Instructor and Guide to Every Known Round Dance, Figures for the German, Etiquette of the Ballroom, Etc.; Cover title: Modern Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., Publishers, 1902. Wraps. [DANCE]. First edition. 12mo; 148 + [10] advertising; color pictorial stiff wrapper printed in red and black, rear wrapper a pictorial advertisement for The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway with a vignette of children sitting on a donkey; title and price of 25¢ on spine; railway ad to verso front and recto rear wrappers; small tear to foot of spine, light hand soiling to wrappers; very good plus. Very good +. Item #1317
Interesting instructional booklet on dance steps with measures of music to count and a few foot placement illustrations. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Three advertisements for railway travel on The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Overland Limited to California on the North-Western Line of the Chicago & North-Western Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railways, and the M K & T (Missouri Kansas & Texas) to Texas, Mexico and California and the Southwest, Take “The Katy Flyer” Through Trains.
Price: $75.00