Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
by Marcus, Greil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- ISBN 10
- 0385417187
- ISBN 13
- 9780385417181
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385417187 . (price-clipped) [good solid clean copy, very light shelfwear, slight "spread" before page 1 (where some kind of object had been stuck in the book); jacket has some minor wrinkling and one small tear at top of rear panel; note that because of the translucence of the jacket (you can just make out the front-cover photo of Elvis through the jacket), I will be unable to apply a new Brodart cover without ruining the effect]. (B&W photographs, other illustrations) "Elvis Presley remains alive -- in the cultural imagination of our place and time. His vitality has intensified in direct proportion to the obsession with his memory. [This book] chronicles this obsession; it is a biography of Elvis's life since his death. [The author] follows the trail of this new, posthumous Elvis as an imaginative force, a kind of necessity -- 'the necessity existing in every culture that leads it to produce a perfect, all-inclusive metaphor for itself.'" .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12237
- Title
- Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
- Author
- Marcus, Greil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385417187
- ISBN 13
- 9780385417181
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- 0385417187, American Society, Elvis Presley, Rock 'n' Roll
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- Fine
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- Brodart
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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