Gazelle-Boy - A Child Brought Up by Gazelles in the Sahara Desert
by Jean-Claude Armen
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0370102843
- ISBN 13
- 9780370102849
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1974 Ex-Library. Illus. by The Author. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. First English Translation. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Study of a boy being raised by gazelles, undertaken by an artist. English translation by Stephen Hardman. 127pp illustrated with monochrome sketches and diagrams. Gilt lettering to spine. Some bumping to spine and corners, forward lean to spine, some foxing to edges and endpapers and library markings to endpaper and verso of title page, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ edgeworn with some fraying to spine, otherwise good..
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- Seller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 013583
- Title
- Gazelle-Boy - A Child Brought Up by Gazelles in the Sahara Desert
- Author
- Jean-Claude Armen
- Illustrator
- The Author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First English Translation
- ISBN 10
- 0370102843
- ISBN 13
- 9780370102849
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature, Wildlife and Ecology; Anthropology;
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Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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