The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
by Early, Gerald
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0880013109
- ISBN 13
- 9780880013109
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About This Item
Ecco Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of shelf wear along the lower edge only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. 285 pages. Contents include: Black intellectual and the sport of prizefighting, The Patterson-Liston fight, Battling Kiki: the boxer as natural man, Romance of toughness: LaMorta and Graziano, Malcolm X and the failure of afrocentrism, etc.
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152685
- Title
- The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
- Author
- Early, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0880013109
- ISBN 13
- 9780880013109
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- Hopewell, Nj
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Boxing, Essays, Racist , Memorabilia, Performance, Magic, Race, Opinion, Skeptic, Parent, Black intellectual , Sport, prizefighting, Patterson-Liston ,fight, Battling ,Kiki, boxer , natural man, Romance , Toughness,LaMorta ,Graziano, Malcolm X ,failure
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- Sports/Fitness;
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