Step Right Up
by McNamara, Brooks
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dj
- ISBN 10
- 0385029594
- ISBN 13
- 9780385029599
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385029594 . [very light soiling to top edge of text block, minimal shelfwear; jacket shows just a little wrinkling along top edge, otherwise nice and clean]. (B&W photos, facsimiles, color plates) This lavishly illustrated history "catalogues the growth of the [American] medicine show from Wizard Oil routines with their high moral tone and starched wing collars; to the humbug Indian spectaculars put on by the Kickapoo and Oregon Medicine companies; through the crucible of the Pure Food and Drug Act; right up to the giant Hadacol Caravans that showcased stars in the South during the 1950s." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23282
- Title
- Step Right Up
- Author
- McNamara, Brooks
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Robert Aulicino
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385029594
- ISBN 13
- 9780385029599
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0385029594, Patent Medicines, Show Business, Quack Medicine, Health Fads
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