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American Memoir
by Dodds, John W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket has chips, tears including a closed tear on spine, toning, and light soil. Not price clipped. White cloth boards have light soil and sunned edges. Bumped corners and light soil on top edge. Personally inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper to photographer Nickolas Muray and his wife Peggy. "A Provocative Analysis of Our Mass Culture from 1900 to the Present." English professor John Wendell Dodds wrote this book as a result of a TV series he produced on American culture, looking at the effects of automobiles, advertising, and more. Book design by Ernst Reichl. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 176 pp; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010778
- Title
- American Memoir
- Author
- Dodds, John W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Sociology, Advertising, Ernst Reichl
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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