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Brother Esau
by Orgill, Douglas Gribbin, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0370304330
- ISBN 13
- 9780370304335
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Bodley Head.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, pale blue and white titles to face and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to prelims & with some age to top and fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 221 pp. text. iv pp. epilogue & blank pages at rear.* Description: ?My Brother Esau is an hairy man,? The quote from Genesis but now an amazing discovery is made in the remote Himalayas, a living creature of the genus Homo, but not Homo Sapiens. A hairy giant of a creature that is soon nicknamed Esau by the press. But the discovery of this Man Ape, may prove its doom as it becomes the focus of rival powers.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor age in a FINE protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 451
- Title
- Brother Esau
- Author
- Orgill, Douglas Gribbin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0370304330
- ISBN 13
- 9780370304335
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 225
- Date Published
- 1982-05-13
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