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New York, New York, USA: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, 2000. BZ2 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. A book that analyzes the American obsession with blonde. Reading group guide, 190p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 5.5"x8.5".

Bryan, Texas, USA: Shoal Creek Publishers, Inc., 1982. BZ4 - A first trade paperback edition trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated olive green and white wraps with minor overall shelf wear with crease on the spine plus there is some scattered very light soiling on the back cover plus there is a large gift inscription in black ink to the original owner on the half title page/front endpaper. A selection of the Texas humorist Cactus Pryor's radio essays. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. 194p.. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Secaucus, New Jersey, USA: Citadel Press/Lyle Stuart Inc., 1985. AL1 - A tight, clean, sound copy with some very tiny patches of board showing (about 0.25") at the top right corner of the front board and bottom right corner of the back board plus the dust jacket mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front and back free endpapers, and the title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very light edge wear along the top spine edge plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A history of the American gangster film with a focus on its enduring popularity as a genre. 254p. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8.5"x11.25". Ex-Library.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. CC6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear, some very light soiling on the outside paper edges, usual library stamps on the half-title page and top outside paper edges, front endpaper cutout/removed, and light shelf wear. Dust jacket still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine wrapping around onto the back and inside flaps are adhered to the fixed endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster, 2002. CF3 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition with a dust jacket in very good+ condition. A sequence of numbers appears on the copyright page with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in textured white paper covered boards with navy lettering on the spine and color pictoral endpapers with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front free endpaper, and front freepaper page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A history of the American flag that examines the evolution of it as an emblem from the American Revolution through the resurgence of patriosim in the aftermath of September 11th. Bibliography, indexed, 195p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA: New Page Books/The Career Press, Inc., 2001. CG4 - A hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has light scuff patch on the front, small crease on the front inside flap, and light shelf wear. Book lightly cocked, some light discoloration and shelf wear. A book that critically examines the urban legends associated with the stars of motion pictures, TV, and music. By the author of "Urban Legends" and "He Rents, She Rents." 8.5"x5.75", 256 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: University of Indiana Press, 1990. CH5 - A trade paperback book in near fine condition. An as new, unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps. A dialogue among theory, popular culture, and politics of avant garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s through the academy of the 1980s. By a noteable author of American Film Institute monographs. Indexed, 234p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1996. CH5 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. A comic, passionate meditation on the mythic image of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. This is a deeply personal and nuanced analysis of the face, the smile, the hairdo, the sunglasses and the silence of a woman who deeply affected popular culture on a day to day basis. Bibliography, 291p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC, USA: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1983. BF6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light bumping at the right board corners plus there is some very light tape staining on the outside board surfaces from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the front and back free endpapers, title page, and copyright page. The dust jacket shows very minor overll shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. With a foreword by Georgie Anne Geyer, a preface by James Abourezk, and an introduction by Edmund Ghareeb. A book that examines how American educational literauture and news reporting have created a predisposition among Americans to accept and perpetuate media stereotyping of the arabs and the issues important to them. This book is made up of a collection of interviews with major journalists as well as a collection of essays on the subject by various writers. 402p. .… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Columbia University Press, 1992. BH5 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. This is a title in the publisher's Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms. A collection of material that examines both how American culture has tried to rewrite the history of the Vietnam War as well as reinterpreting a number of established myths about "American character" and life. The contributions include ""The Vietnam War and American Memory" by Rick Berg and John Carlos Rowe, "Visions of Righteousness" by Noam Chomsky, "Revisionist Vietnam History" by Stephen Vlastos, "Missing in Action: Women Warriors in Vietnam" by Carol Lynn Mithers, "Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films from World War II and Vietnam" by Claudia Springer, "Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology" by Rick Berg, "Eyewitness: Documentary Styles in the American… Read More