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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan

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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan

by Porges, Irwin (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs) (introduction by Ray Bradbury) (memoir by Forrest J. Ackerman)

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ISBN 10
0842500790
ISBN 13
9780842500791
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Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 4to. (xvii) 820 pp. Please note, this is a extremely heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter-bound in black on green tweed boards; lettered in black on the front panel and gilt on the spine; green endpapers; headband. A few small nicks around the edges of the dustjacket with a short tear on the lower right of the rear panel; sticker residue on the front panel near the spine; creased on the front flap; price intact. Illustrated profusely. The Contents are: Foreword by Hulbert Burroughs; Preface; Introduction: Tarzan, John Carter, Mr. Burroughs, and the Long Mad Summer of 1930 by Ray Bradbury; The Creative Decision; Childhood and a First Adventrue; Schooling, Rebelliion, and Discipline; The Seventh Cavalry and Beyond; Marriage, Wanderings, and Reality; Frantic Years and a Taste of Success; The Outlaw of Torn; Tarzan of the Apes; The Prolific Perios; A California Sojourn; The Writer at Home; Film Frustration; Auto-gypsying; Writer-Patriot; Gentleman Farmer; Tarzana-Family, Business, Creativity; Problems at Home and Abroad; Social Commentator, Columnist; Diverse Writings; Minor and Major Money-makers; Personal Crisis and Adjustment; Burroughss - Tarzan Films; War Correspondent; Venus-Mars-Pellucidar Series and Other Works; and Last Years with the Family; followed by Appendices: Major George and Mary Evaline; Genealogy; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction Writer: An Autobiographical Sketch; List of ERB's Complete Works; Reminiscences of Hulbert Burroughs; Of Beans and Rice by Forrest J. Ackerman; and The Author; followed by an index...

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Bookseller
W. Fraser Sandercombe CA (CA)
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Title
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan
Author
Porges, Irwin (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs) (introduction by Ray Bradbury) (memoir by Forrest J. Ackerman)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good-
Edition
Later Printing
ISBN 10
0842500790
ISBN 13
9780842500791
Publisher
Brigham Young University Press
Place of Publication
Provo, Utah
Date Published
1976
Size
4to
Keywords
tarzan apes; john carter mars; movie; film; motion picture; cinema; hollywood; tv; television; tie in; speculative fiction; supernatural literature; dark fantasy; weird tales; folklore; mythology; heroic; epic;
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