by Peggy Hicks

(Jerome, Az.): (Peggy Hicks/Arizona Discoveries), (2011).

First edition, first printing; trade paperback original.

"First printing" statement to the copyright page.

SIGNED by the author to the title page.

Generously illustrated throughout with photographs and copies of memorabilia.

Hicks precedes this portrait of The Cuban Queen with her 'true' ghost account while visiting the old bordello building.

Well-researched biography, spiced with flushed-out realistic assumptions, of Bessie Johnson, who was dubbed The Cuban Queen, and of the history surrounding her life from her 1883 origins as a member of a musical family and then as a prostitute in Storyville, New Orleans, to her musical Jelly Roll Morton years, and finally her running of the famous prostitution house in Jerome, Arizona.

Bessie Julia Johnson, aka Annie Johnson married Jelly Roll Morton in New Orleans, then traveled the country with him until she settled in Jerome Arizona, becoming a Madam.

Fine in glossy illustrated stiff-card wraps with white titles to the front cover and to the spine.
 

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