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The Ape I Knew
de Lewis, George W
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good +/Good +
- Librería
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
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 the carnival season on April 9. Living and traveling with a carnival show provided a whole new series of experiences for the Lewis family--Slim, his wife Edna, and their three young sons, Donald, Ronald, and Charles. The first four weeks were extremely discouraging for they were almost continually plagued by rain, and the receipts were poor. At Klamath Falls, Oregon, they enjoyed a pleasant and profitable week, and business held up well when they crossed over the Cascades to Pasco, Washington, and continued eastward across Idaho and Montana. In recalling the experiences of a season with the carnival people, the author of The Ape I knew gives the reader an inside view of the ups and downs of carnival life. He tells how the locations are assigned along the midway, how the concessions operate, how percentages of the take are divided, and how the games of chance can be rigged.(Publisher).
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 the carnival season on April 9. Living and traveling with a carnival show provided a whole new series of experiences for the Lewis family--Slim, his wife Edna, and their three young sons, Donald, Ronald, and Charles. The first four weeks were extremely discouraging for they were almost continually plagued by rain, and the receipts were poor. At Klamath Falls, Oregon, they enjoyed a pleasant and profitable week, and business held up well when they crossed over the Cascades to Pasco, Washington, and continued eastward across Idaho and Montana. In recalling the experiences of a season with the carnival people, the author of The Ape I knew gives the reader an inside view of the ups and downs of carnival life. He tells how the locations are assigned along the midway, how the concessions operate, how percentages of the take are divided, and how the games of chance can be rigged.(Publisher).
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Detalles
- Librería
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10188
- Título
- The Ape I Knew
- Autor
- Lewis, George W
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good +
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Caxton Printers, Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- Caldwell
- Fecha de publicación
- 1961
Términos de venta
Underground Books, ABAA
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Sobre el vendedor
Underground Books, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
Sobre Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- New
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
