EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan - Volume One and Volume Two

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1976

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1310 pp. Please note, these are very heavy books and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Both books have some edge and corner wear and some rubbing; Volume II has a faint crease on the flat spine, Volume I has a flat uncreased spine; Illustrated profusely. The Contents are: VOLUME I: 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; and Problems at Home and Abroad. VOLUME II: 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: 8vo.…

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Title
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - The Man Who Created Tarzan - Volume One and Volume Two
Author
Porges, Irwin (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs) (introduction by Ray Bradbury) (memoir by Forrest J. Ackerman)
Publisher
Ballantine Books, New York
Publication year
1976
Condition
Very Good
Book Type
Book
Binding
Soft cover
Edition
First Printing - First Thus.
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Autobiography and Biography, Fantasy and Science Fiction

WF Sandercombe

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