Between the Covers

Unbound. Broadsheet. Illustration by Timothy Jackson. Measuring 23" x 15.5". Stiff paper with some toning, one tack hole, and a few small tears, near fine. An original poster for one of Mike "Limbo King" Quashie's annual masquerade and cross-dressing events. Quashie, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, was a famous New York performer, close friend of Jimi Hendrix and Lou Reed, who performed on *The Ed Sullivan Show*, and later opened for Led Zeppelin. His routine involved flamboyant limbo and voodoo theme dances in garish costumes and pyrotechnics that influenced Hendrix's wardrobe and stage performances, as well as that of the glam rockers of the 1970s. The Divine Decadence Costume Ball Extravaganza was one of several annual events hosted by Quashie, notorious for its mingling of drag queens and uptown New York socialites. Internet searches turned up little material related to these annual shows aside from brief references in two *New York Times* articles about Quashie. Possibly unique. *OCLC* locates no copies.

Item #412399