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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy; Hickey, Dave Art Issues Press 1997 0963726455 / 9780963726452 PAPERBACK
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0963726455 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. As enjoyable and provocative a book of criticism as anyone has published in years. Rolling Stone "Dave Hickey's prose transports are like an eye attached to a butterfly attached to a rocketship which is to say, lucidity uncannily yoked to both a deft lightness of touch and sheer gangbusters propulsion: the down-to-earth, time and again, taking off and taking flight. generosity of the man's verve the suppleness of its profusions can get to be downright ravishing. On top of which, the guy's really funny. " Lawrence Weschler, critic, New Yorker Air Guitar is Dave Hickey's "memoir without tears" a journey through the vernacular cultural landscape of the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Looking back from the vantage-point of his adopted hometown of Las Vegas, Hickey speculates on everything from jazz and rock-and-roll to basketball and professional wrestling from magic and psychedelia to gambling and the culture of "little stores" from automotive design to series television to Saturday-morning cartoons. emphasis in these 23 essays is on the way the arts function in the drift of everyday life, outside the venues of official culture, and on singular "lives in the arts, " lived outside those venues, with meditations on the careers of Liberace, Hank Williams, Chet Baker, Andy Warhol, Johnny Mercer, Norman Rockwell, magicians Siegfried & Roy, and wrestler Lady Godiva. Underlying Hickey's writing is an abiding belief that cultural life in a democracy can (and occasionally does) function in a democratic manner, sustained by the whims of affection and the commerce of opinion.
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18.50 USD
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Antaeus 21/22: Spring/Summer 1976; n/a Antaeus 1976 TRADE PAPERBACK
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Good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior 311 p. Includes index.
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5.00 USD
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In Our Time; Wolfe, Tom Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1980 0374175764 / 9780374175764 Hardcover
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0374175764 Good in good dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior, DJ moderately torn Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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6.00 USD
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Middle English romances by Gibbs, A. C.; Gibbs, A. C. Northwestern University Press 1967 TRADE PAPERBACK
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Very good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior vii, 180 p. 21 cm. York medieval texts.. Bibliography: p. 159-160. Introduction. --King Horn. --Havelok. --Floriz and Blauncheflur. --Sir Orfeo. --Amis and Amiloun. --The gest hystoriale of the destruction of Troy. --Sir Thopas. --Emar?. --Sir Degrevant.
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2.00 USD
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On The Bus; Various Bombshelter Press 0941017338 / 9780941017336 PAPERBACK
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0941017338 ~Very Good. No DJ, as issued. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed.
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27.00 USD
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15; n/a Ticknor And Fields 1865 Hardcover
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Fair. No dust jacket. ~clean text, loose binding, significant water damage, torn front hinge 764 p. An Anthology Of Old Atlantic Monthly's, from 1865.
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12.00 USD
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The Nature Novel from Hardy to Lawrence; John Alcorn Columbia University Press 1977 0231041225 / 9780231041225 Hardcover
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0231041225 Very good in very good dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior 139 p. Audience: General/trade.
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3.00 USD
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The Review Of Reviews: 1892; n/a The Review Of Reviews 1892 Hardcover
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Very good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior 770 p. Includes illustrations. An Anthology Of 'The Review Of Reviews', a Review from England, 1892
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25.00 USD
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The Saturday evening post stories, 1950.; n/a Random House 1950 Hardcover
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Very good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior vi, 298 p.; 22 cm. Short stories: Doctor Hanray's second chance / by Conrad Richter--The conscience of the court / by Zora Neale Hurston--The fabulous cabman / by Mackinlay Kantor--The man who hated people / by Paul Gallico--Death in the pass / by Erik Sjogren...
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3.50 USD
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This War by Thomas Mann; Thomas Mann Alfred A. Knopf 1940 Hardcover
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Good. No dust jacket. ~clean text, tight binding, light wear to exterior 68 p.
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4.50 USD
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