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To Find an Image: Black Films from Uncle Tom to Superfly
by Murray, James P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0672517450
- ISBN 13
- 9780672517457
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merill Company, 1973. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Then-film editor for Black Creation magazine & the first African American film critic elected to the New York Film Critics Circle, the author surveys black scenes & actors & entire films from the early days of filmmaking in the 1920s through the "blacksploitation" films of the 1970s. In 205 pages + 16 pages of black-and-white photos. A First Edition, first printing from 1973, this hardcover book has black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Condition is VG+: aside from stamps in front & back & outside bottom page edges from the US Navy library in Imperial Beach, CA, it is completely clean, binding secure & straight, pages creamy white. The price-clipped DJ is Near Fine, having been protected under library mylar, which has been carefully removed & replaced with new clear mylar cover! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018955
- Title
- To Find an Image: Black Films from Uncle Tom to Superfly
- Author
- Murray, James P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0672517450
- ISBN 13
- 9780672517457
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis/New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- FILM MOVIES CINEMA BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGES PORTRAYALS RACE SYSTEMIC RACISM STEREOTYPES UNITED STATES HOLLYWOOD ACTORS ACTRESSES COLOR BARRIER ROLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film/Television; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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