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Editor:	Philip José Farmer
Title:	Mother Was A Lovely Beast
Subtitle:	A Feral-Man Anthology (Fiction And Fact About Humans Raised By Animals)
Publisher:	Chilton Book Company
Country:	USA
Date:	1974
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	0801959640
Cat#:	5964
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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1st edition
Cover by D. Dyen
With seven stories or extracts from novels–, one article and one essay plus 'Introduction', 'Forewords' to each segment and an 'Afterword', by Philip José Farmer.
"The God of Tarzan", by Edgar Rice Burroughs first appeared in The Blue Book Magazine v24 #2, December 1916.
"Extracts from the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke'", by Philip José Farmer first appeared here then in later editions of "Tarzan Alive".
"Tarzan of the Grapes", by Gene Wolfe first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, v42 #6 June 1972.
"Relic", by Mack Reynolds first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, v32, #3 March. 1967.
"One Against a Wilderness", by William L. Chester first appeared in The Blue Book Magazine 1937.
"Shasta of the Wolves", by Olaf Baker (extracts from novel). Published in 1919.
"Scream of the Condor", by George Bruce first appeared in Famous Fantastic Adventures Magazine #1 Spring 1971.
"The Man Who Really Was...Tarzan", article by Thomas Llewellan Jones first appeared in Man's Adventures March 1959.
"The Feral Human in Mythology and Fiction", essay by Philip José Farmer only appeared here and in the Pyramid paperback edition.

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David Whiteley 4th Aug 2022		Added back cover. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 8th Aug 2020		Added better cover (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Mar 2018		mostly reprint thematic anthology edited by philip josé farmer including three short stories, an original novelelette by farmer, a novella, two novel excerpts, two nf essays (one original by farmer), introduction, forewords to the individual stories & extracts, and afterword by farmer, plus bibliography near-identical editions/printings sharing merkin-printed covers, cat#, and, in the small frame in the front cover design, cover art by don dyen (detail from the 1974 chilton first edition h/cvr d-j, attribution from pjfarmer.com) cover price $1.25 256pp. including titles, indica etc. refer to indica to see if the copy you hold is the first mmpb printing, or adds a line stating second printing, july 1976 (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Philip José Farmer - Mother Was A Lovely Beast - Pyramid - Paperback - USA - 0515040711 (1976)