Gentleman Jigger

Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo, 2008. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo in red and black wraps; 331 pp; 21 cm. Near Fine(+); wraps and pages are bright and free of marks, bumps and creases; binding is tight. . Paperback. ISBN: 9780786720637

"Written between 1928 and 1933--and never before published--Gentleman Jigger is a wickedly revealing satire of the leading lights of this vibrant time. An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of Stuartt, Bohemian scion of Washington D.C.'s African-American elite. Openly homosexual--as was the author--Stuartt joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious "Niggeratti Castle." After the group disperses, Stuartt moves to Greenwich Village and becomes sexually involved with a young hoodlum. Charming and audacious, Stuartt eventually seduces one of gangland's top bosses, Orini, before his friendships with the young heiress Wayne Traveller and Orini's "moll" Bebe set them all spinning in a whirlwind of jazz-age glamour and celebrity... that ends in an ironic dénoument." --Publisher