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POWERFUL IMAGES: Portrayals of Native America.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Seattle: Museums West / University of Washington Press, (1998). First edition - Exhibition catalog which looks at the ways in which Indians have been portrayed by themselves and others from the early 1800s to the present. Paintings, sculptures, traditional native arts, and popular culture objects - neon signs, toys, automobiles, cigar boxes - are used to both reveal and challenge popular assumptions about native North Americans. Foreword by Peter Hassrick; introduction by Dave Warren. Illustrated in full color throughout. Large format. Index. xvi, 144 pp. ISBN: 0-295976756.
Condition: Very good (some wear to the edges of the covers)
Book ID: 70340More details Price: $20.00 -
BLACKFACE: Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Covers the period from 1963-94. Each section of essays is preceded by a brief chronological listing of highlights (good and bad) during the period. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171200.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53652More details Price: $30.00 -
BLACKFACE: Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Covers the period from 1963-94. Each section of essays is preceded by a brief chronological listing of highlights (good and bad) during the period. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171200.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (black line on bottom edge, corners slightly bumped, crease on dj flap.).
Book ID: 56425More details Price: $27.50 -
CHINATOWN BALLADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Duffield, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Stereotypical ballads depicting Chinese American life in San Francisco's Chinatown - but these also deal with some very real events - the bubonic plague which hit San Francisco in 1900 (and which first affected Chinatown) and the earthquake of 1906. Illustrated with eight glossy plates from drawings by E.C. Peixotto. 81 pp.
Condition: Good only in illustrated beige cloth - missing front endpaper, some edge tears to pages, other wear.
Book ID: 40826More details Price: $30.00 -
MARGINAL SIGHTS: Staging the Chinese in America.
Edition: First printing.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the history and prevalence of stereotypes in depicting the Chinese in films and theatre, from Bret Harte and Mark Twain's play 'Ah Sin' to O'Neill's Marcos Millions and the contemporary Broadway hit 'Miss Saigon' and from early silent films to modern pornography. The stereetypes range from Charlie Chan to Fu Manchu to Madame Butterfly. Includes a chapter on the photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown by Arnold Genthe. A title in the 'Theatre History and Culture' series. 158 pp. with notes and bibliography. ISBN: 0-87745-4272.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 26466More details Price: $20.00 -
AMERICA REVISITED (Volumes I and II.)
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, missing the front endpaper, but overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering.
Book ID: 42919More details Price: $30.00
