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The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
by Early, Gerald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0880013109
- ISBN 13
- 9780880013109
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0880013109 . Blue cloth spine blocked in gilt. The dust jacket has slight creasing to the rear panel. Essays about topics ranging from boxing, baseball, and jazz, to magic, race and life with daughters. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.; 285 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25264
- Title
- The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
- Author
- Early, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0880013109
- ISBN 13
- 9780880013109
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- Hopewell, NJ
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0880013109, FIRST Edition, Boxing -- United States -- Philosophy. Cultural pluralism -- United , States. African Americans -- Social conditions. African Americans -- , Social conditions. Boxing -- Philosophy. Cultural pluralism.
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- Essays;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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