Jimmy Kelly's: The Montmartre of New York. 181 Sullivan Street, Greenwich Village, New York. (cover title).

[New York: Jimmy Kelly's], no date, ca 1945. Tall 4to, 28 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Original pictorial stiff paper wraps, stapled. Laid in is a printed card (35" x 45") advising a "two-fifty per person" minimum after 10:30 pm due to the "elaborate entertainment."

Moderately soiled & toned, brief edge wear, light rubbing, shallow corner creases throughout, otherwise Good or better

A splendid "journal" given "as a memento of your visit to the Montmartre of New York" Proprietor Jimmy Kelly, born Giovanni de Silvo (or John DeSilvio), cut his teeth as a boxer, gangster, & Tammany Hall operative before turning to the nightclub business. Opening Jimmy Kelly's in 1921, the New York Times noted that his "Blue Ribbon 100-minute Floor Show" … in which "boys and girls (but chiefly girls) stamp, tap, croon, harmonize and contortion-dance their way without pausing for a long breath had the customers packing in to small space."