THE GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON,
by Merz, Charles
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (spine rubbed, lettering faded), lacking the dust jacket./dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (spine rubbed, lettering faded), lacking the
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About This Item
New York:: Literary Guild of America,, 1928.. Hardcover -. Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (spine rubbed, lettering faded), lacking the dust jacket.. Hardcover. While this might have been a tongue-in-cheek criticism of the excesses of the "roaring twenties" it is amazing how it still describes the United States -whether it is taken to the road in the chapters "The once open road" and "Caravan" or the fascination with "Bigger and better murders", golf, boxing, movies, junk food ("soda fountains" where "the food is bogus" even though wrapped in strictly sanitary packages) and more. Illustrated with drawings by Howard W. Willard. 263 pp.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43475
- Title
- THE GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON,
- Author
- Merz, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (spine rubbed, lettering faded), lacking the dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (spine rubbed, lettering faded), lacking the
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Literary Guild of America,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1928.
- Keywords
- social satire, american customs, golf, boxing, new york city, 1920's,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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