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Caldwell ID: Caxton Prnters, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Slim Lewis left hom at 16 to travel with verious American circuses and carnival shows as animal caretaker and concession helper (Robbins Circus, trainer of the famous elephant Tusko, Downie Bros. Circus, had keeper of pachyderms at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle...263 pages, b/w photos. DJ corners taped unobtrusively; DJ in protective sleeve.; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 ''.
The Ape I Knew by Lewis, George W. (Slim) - 1961
by Lewis, George W. (Slim)
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The Ape I Knew
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Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.A.: Caxton Printers , 1961. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 263 page, plus black-and-white photographs; very gently used, hardly a trace of shelf wear, tight in binding, all text pages very clean and unmarked, surprisingly fresh and white for a book of this vintage, but there are traces of pale faded old waterstaing along the bottom edges of both covers with some barely visible traces in the bottom edges of a few non-text pages; DJ has numerous very tiny chips/tears, same pale waterstaining along bottom, wraparound front/spine art still bright and colourful Love the circus? (who doesn't?), see also our listing for Jill Freedman's Circus Days.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good.
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- Publisher Caxton Printers
- Place of Publication Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.A.
- Date Published 1961
- Keywords ADVENTURE TRAVEL AMERICAN NATURE NATURAL SCIENCE HISTORY Tusko, Downie Bros. Circus Robbins Circus Elephant pachyderms at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Woodland Park Zoo, carnival Circuit animal Trainers Amusement Parks Recreation Entertainment Perform
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The Ape I Knew
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The Ape I Knew
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Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1961. Very good hard cover. No dust jacket . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.
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The Ape I Knew
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Long Beach, Washington, United States
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Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1961 263 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, frontis; med offset to eps, child's inscription ffep. Cover: orange, black titles front/spine; v lt shelfwear, head/heel mildly curved. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, lush circus artwork front/spine, orange/black titles front, balck/reverse titles spine, photo and black text back; lightly rubbed, sm closed tear back, tiny chpped front, lt tatter to head. A season with the carnival.
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The Ape I Knew
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Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 263pp. Book presents nicely with price-clipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with light rubbing, toning, and creasing ot covers, corners, and edges. Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in black. Light toning and rubbing to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Faint spots of toning to top edge of text block. Book plate to front paste-down. Penciled notation to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: George W. ("Slim") Lewis was operating his own tattoo shop at the Penny Arcade in Seattle when he heard, through friends, of a gorilla show for sale--a chimpanzee named Garganga, billed as "The Greatest Living Manlike Ape Alive." Thinking this was a way back into the show business, he became Garaganga's new owner and was on hand at Renton, Washington, when the American United Shows opened for…
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The Ape I Knew.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1961. 1st . Hardcover. fine/very good. Illustrated with photographs.
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The Ape I Knew
by Lewis, George W. (Slim)
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1961. First edition. Illustrated with Photographs. 263 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in Near Fine pictorial dj. First edition. Illustrated with Photographs. 263 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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