The 7th man : a true cannibal tale of the South Sea islands / told in fifteen wood-engravings and precisely one hundred and eighty nine words by Robert Gibbings.

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Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, The 7th man , MCMXXX [1930]

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Creator:: Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958
Title(s):: The 7th man : a true cannibal tale of the South Sea islands / told in fifteen wood-engravings and precisely one hundred and eighty nine words by Robert Gibbings.
Additional Title(s):: Seventh man
Published/Created:: Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:: [4], 14, [3] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE1217.G53 A55 1930
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/843564
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "This book was printed and published by the author at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire. Compositors: F. Young & A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. 500 copies only have been printed."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 72
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 330 of 500. Bound in yellow quarter buckram with red and and white patterned boards.
Subject Terms:: Cannibalism -- Folklore.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Tales -- Oceania.
Form/Genre:: Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings -- 1930.
Contributors:: Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Cooper, A. C. (Albert C.), pressman.
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