Verlag: Pantheon, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375423826 ISBN 13: 9780375423826
Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Verlag: Pantheon, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375423826 ISBN 13: 9780375423826
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket with some loss and tearing at the bottom edges. Cover shows minor rubbing, pages clean.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375423826 ISBN 13: 9780375423826
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006
ISBN 10: 1400096766 ISBN 13: 9781400096763
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. 1 Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Vintage, 2006
ISBN 10: 1400096766 ISBN 13: 9781400096763
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Erstausgabe
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2006. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good.
Verlag: Pantheon Books (c.2005), New York, 2005
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Brian Barth (illustrator). First Edition. [beautiful clean copy, no discernible wear to book at all; jacket shows only light surface handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The first full-scale biography of the first African-American movie star, whose talents were channeled by the narrow and essentially racist world-view of the Hollywood mainstream cinema into comic portrayals of lazy, shiftless black men -- stereotypical roles of the worst sort, which he filled with such brilliance that his very name became a kind of shorthand for the stereotype itself. Ironically, his on-screen subserviance made him an off-screen millionaire, "the highest paid and most popular black comedian in America during Hollywood's Golden Age," but his off-screen behavior and extravagant lifestyle eventually drove him into bankruptcy and near-destitution. He fortunately lived long enough to have been "rediscovered" and honored for his achievements, but he was a controversial and even (by some) reviled figure right to the end, and even today it's hard for modern audiences to see through the stereotypical characters to the talented man behind them. 0-375-42382-6.
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC Nov 2006, 2006
ISBN 10: 1400096766 ISBN 13: 9781400096763
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's most popular comic stereotype-the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as 'the best actor that the talking movies have produced," and Mel Watkins's meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor's life, from Perry's tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry's prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment.