Hubert's Freaks The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus

Name: Hubert's Freaks The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus
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ISBN: 9780151012336

ISBN-10: 0151012334

ISBN-13: 9780151012336

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gregory Gibson

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Bob Langmuir is an obsessive dealer with a remarkable eye for treasure who makes the discovery of a lifetime when he chances upon a trove of never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. When he purchases a trunk containing the archive of Hubert's Dime Museum and Flea Circus—a midcentury Times Square freak show frequented by Arbus—and discovers some intriguing photographs, he knows he’s on to something. Furthermore, he begins to suspect that what he's found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Arbus and the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus's phrase, that Hubert's inhabited. Langmuir's ensuing adventure, filled with bizarre coincidences, turns into a…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Gregory Gibson is an antiquarian book dealer who lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.



Preface: The Man in Blue



An American Palindrome


Sunday, Monday, and Charlie


The Old Roman Gardens


Deeyan and Allan


What More can You ask for?


Early Bob


Life in the Colonies


Bob: The Middle Years


Simoom in the Sahara


Diane and John


Jan, Meg, Ernie, and Mom


Miss McRae


The Final Act


Black History


The Collectors


Out of Africa


Feeding the Rat


The Buy


The Finer Sort


Flying Fur


Down the Rabbit Hole


The Grind


A Crack in the Mystical Vessel


Bob and Woogie


Deconstructing the Palindrome



New Bob


The Kiss and the Curse


Paper Pajamas


Off the Couch and into the Frying Pan


Yes!!! Fantastic!!! and Fascinating!!!


Robert Miller


A Shark's Lunch


Consummatum Est


The Magic Cloud


Bob and Steve


Other Faces


Woogie's Boxes


The Old, Weird Bob


The Bostocks of West Philadelphia


Deep Leo


In Which Bob Proves to Have Been More Stubborn than Jan was Angry


Heisenberg Jr


Untitled


Healing Waters


The Sunset Kid


And That's not all


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography