EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan

Language: English

Published by Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah, 1976

0842500790 / 9780842500791

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(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. Size: 4to.

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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)
Publisher
Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah
Publication year
1976
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good-
Book Type
Book
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0842500790
ISBN 13
9780842500791
Edition
Later Printing.
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