Frederic Fadner (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1937, First Edition, Near Fine/Good Plus dj, octavo, 246pp., blue cloth hardcover, price-clipped dj with chips & tears & creases around edges, binding tight, owner's inked name o/w text unmarked, author's first novel.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very solid copy of the 1944 1st edition of this biography of Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), the "gentleman giant" from Illinois, considered at 8' 11" the tallest man in human history. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with fading along the spine and light rubbing to the front panel. Octavo, 206 pgs. "Thousands of pictures were taken of him in his travels all over the country and sixteen of the most unusual have been selected for this book". Co-written with the assistance of Robert Wadlow's father, Harold Wadlow.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback - clean, clean cover, no marks - from private collection - Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 - July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American who became famous as the tallest person ever in human recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. The Alton and Illinois monikers reflect the fact that he was born and raised in Alton, Illinois. Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) in height and weighed 490 lb (220 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to hyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. This vintage hardcover is about the life of Robert Wadlow. "Never before has a biography of a rea, sure-enough, honest-to-goodness giant been written. For ogres lived only in fairy books and were usually depicted as vicious monsters who moamed through the world and were thoroughly wicked. How many of us, as youngsters, breathed a sigh of relief that they lived only between the covers of a book! History tells us there have been other living giants. But Robert Wadlow is the only giant who has been measured periodically by scientists in a medical school of a great university" (taken from front flap of dust jacket). This book about the 8ft11in Robert Wadlow tells the story of his life and adventures, as well as including black-and-white pictures of him throughout. The dust jacket has some wear including rubbing and tearing along the edges and spine. There is chipping to the middle of the dust jacket and the top edge of the spine and tanning to the back panel. The dust jacket is unclipped with the original $2.00 price printed on the front flap. Uniform tanning to pages with age. Blue boards with gold lettering along the spine. Inside text is unmarked with no previous owner's name or stamp. Picture page between pp.28-29 detached from spine and tucked neatly inside. Binding is intact otherwise with signs of reading. List of Robert Wadlow's appearances by city in the back of the text.