THE UNEMBARRASSED MUSE: The Popular Arts In America; Two Centuries of American Life, A Bicentennial History by Russel B. Nye New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First edition, first printing; A volume in the Two Centuries of American Life: A Bicentennial Series edited by Harold M Hyman and Leonard W. Levy. Generously illustrated. A comprehensive two-hundred year history of American literature and entertainment for mass consumption that includes theater, fiction, genres, pulps, comics, comic strips, music, television, radio, film, commercials, and more. Name on the upper front endpaper, faint rust spotting to the lower fore-edge pages, else near fine in blue buckram linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the extremities; original printed price on the front flap has been clipped. Thick octavo; 497 pages; bibliography and sources; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!