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The Man Who Created Tarzan
by Porges, Irwin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0842500790
- ISBN 13
- 9780842500791
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Utah, USA: Brigham Young University Press, 1975. First Edition. Leatherette. Near Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition, Second printing. Colossal Work on the life and career of Edgar rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan of the Apes and author of many ground beaking Sci-Fi Novels. 819 Pages, with some B&W photos and Illustrations. 11 3/8" Tall. Black Half Leatherette Binding with Green cloth and facsimilie signature to front. Gilt lettering to spine. Small neat previous owner's stamp on ffep and label on rear endpaper. No other inscriptions. Pages in very nice clean condition. Some edgewear to cover. Weighs nearly 3 Kilos so postage will be extra. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005279
- Title
- The Man Who Created Tarzan
- Author
- Porges, Irwin
- Format/Binding
- Leatherette
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0842500790
- ISBN 13
- 9780842500791
- Publisher
- Brigham Young University Press
- Place of Publication
- Utah, USA
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED BOOKS/BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS/TARZAN
Terms of Sale
Cornish Books
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About the Seller
Cornish Books
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Penzance, Cornwall
About Cornish Books
Online Bookseller since 2008, in Penzance, Cornwall.We are a small family business and offer a personal service.Always in stock is a good selection of Cornish Interest Books.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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