Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
signed association copy
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Council Oak Books, 1989. First edition, fourth impression. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Small format hardcover with decorative endpapers.
Inscribed and signed by the author to Lu Vason, (1939 - 2015). Denver resident, music promoter of the Pointer Sisters and other significant artists/performers and founder of the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo (BPIR), the world’s leading all-Black Cowboy touring rodeo. “The Greatest Show on Dirt” still running today.
Laid in is a beautiful and pristine embossed vertical format color and gold gilt business card for Bill Picketts Invitational Black Rodeo featuring an image of Bill Pickett in pink and blue cowboy garb above a banderole inscribed ‘Lu Vason producer’. Bandanna, lasso, belt buckle and title are all gold gilt as is the embossed encircling ‘rope’ border. Verso has P.O. box address and names Lu Vason as President. Fine. Two small spots of smearing on blue ink inscription made when the ink was wet. / Fine. Item #250
Taulbert writes about his life experiences from his childhood in a small Mississippi town during the segregated 1950s to his emigration North in 1962 at the age of 17. The book won Taulbert a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Later made into a 1995 movie starring Phylicia Rashad, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, and Al Freeman.
Price: $60.00