Before Adam
by London, Jack
A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans. Before Adam is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public spotlight in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its telling but also in its imaginative projection of a mindset for early humans. Capitalizing on his recognized ability to understand animals, Jack London paints an arresting and dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought about themselves and their world.
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Before Adam
by Jack London
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- 1907
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Centreville, Virginia, USA
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First edition. BAL 11903. A bright, near fine copy. With 8 full-page color illustrations and numerous drawings by Charles Livingston Bull. NF in woven beige cloth with bright front boards with title and author in bright red letters traced in white; all 5 footprints clean and bright! Spine slightly slightly faded with small spot of white discoloration. End papers are… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- 1907.
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San Anselmo, California, USA
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New York. The Macmillan Company 1907. Bound in pictorial decorated brown buckram 8vo. First Edition.This copy inscribed boldly in ink by Jack London to his Sister, Ida London Byrne and his Brother-In-Law Jack on the Front free endsheet In a strong,broad hand requiring the majority of the Front Free Endsheet, London writes :"Dear Ida & Jack- With love and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- 1st Edition
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- 2004
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Piggott, Arkansas, USA
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London, United Kingdom: Hesperus Press / Hesperus Classics, 2004. Stated First Hesperus Press Edition. Pages [124] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. French flap wraps, clean, colors bright, no reading creases at spine, minor display indications. Very faint age discolorations at bottom and top page edges and at spine. Surface mar [PO's label removal?] at half title page. Media Mail,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- 1907
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Victoria, British Columbia, CAN
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition . Cloth. Vg/No Jacket. 8vo. Charles Livingston Bull. 242 pgs. with 4 pages ads at end. 8 colour plates including frontis. b/w sketch map as well as smaller illustrations throughout the text. Tan buckram covers, scuffed and lightly soiled (see photos) Erasure evidence on front free endpaper. Occasional spotty foxing… Read more about this item Item Price
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BEFORE ADAM (Unrecorded English edition).
by London, Jack.
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Fort Bragg, California, USA
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London: Macmillan, 1907. First UK edition. Slight fading to spine, moderate rubbing to covers, endpapers darkened, some foxing to pages, else about very good. Original light brown pictorial cloth with lettering in red and white and dark brown footprint motif on front cover and spine, octavo, 242 pp., 4 pages ads at year. Frontispiece and 7 color plates,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Richmond, Missouri, USA
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New York and London: Macmillan, 1907. An octavo, 242 pages, plus ads. First Edition, bound in original pictorial cloth. Adise from some offsetting from a small newspaper portrait of London tipped-on to the verso of the frontispiece and some browning to the free endpapers, this is a fine bright copy. Nicely illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. Item Price
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Before Adam (Hesperus Classics)
by Jack London
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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Before Adam (Hesperus Classics)
by Jack London
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Hesperus Press. Used - Like New. 2004. Paperback. Fine. Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- 1907
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Wolfeboro Falls, New Hampshire, USA
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NZ$302.99
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New York: Macmillan, 1907. 1st Edition . Cloth Bound. Very Good. Charles Bull. VG in beige cloth binding, no jacket. Light rubbing, hinges starting. Top edge cut, other edges uncut. Spine a bit faded. Typical offsetting to endpapers from the missing dust jacket. Color frontispiece and seven plates in text by Charles Livingston Bull.
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- 1912
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Modesto, California, USA
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NZ$229.80
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New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1912. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; First Edition with points noted in Sisson, pages 33-34. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and light edge wear. There is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- 1st UK Edition
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- 1908
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Diss, Norfolk, GBR
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NZ$63.89
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London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1908. Hardback, decorative green cloth, gilt titles to spine. 307pp, 8pp pub ads. Colour frontis and colour plates. 1st UK edition. nd. [circa1908]. Spine slightly faded, binding a little marked and worn. Very occasional spotting. Private ownership. (an20). 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Item Price
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BEFORE ADAM
by London, Jack
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- 1907
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Yarmouth, Maine, USA
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NZ$425.55
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1907. With Numerous Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in brown and lettered in red and white.
First Edition of this odd novel written several years earlier, not long after THE CALL OF THE WILD, during London's three-year "long sickness." Just as much of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- Used - Good+
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- First American edition
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- 1907
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- Hardcover
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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NZ$187.24
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First American edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. [6], vii, [5], 1-242, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Original buckram cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine, brown decorations of ape's feet on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, a two-page map, with seven color plates, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack (1876-1916)
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- 1907
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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NZ$1,276.65
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viii+242+[4 ad] pages with 8 colored plates including frontispiece. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2"). Bound in brown buckram with pictorial cover stamped in two tone brown footprints, lettered in red and white on spine and cover. Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. A run of 20,080 were printed. Check dated July 13, 1907 signed by Jack London laid in.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam (Hesperus Classics)
by London, Jack
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- New
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- 2004-07-01
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- Paperback
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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Hesperus Press, 2004-07-01. Paperback. New. 4x0x7. Paperback. An unused, unmarked and unblemished copy. Cover may be different than pictured.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition Presentation Copy.
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- 1907
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- Paperback
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Redding, Connecticut, USA
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NZ$6,553.47
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New York:: Macmillan,, 1907. First Trade Edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LONDON on the front free endpaper: " Dear Joe Wharton: In remembrance of all your patient kindness, which at last resulted in the two splendid deer-heads that now adorn my walls. Sincerely yours, Jack London, Glen Ellen, Calif. Feb. 28, 1913. Original pictorial woven tan cloth with red lettering,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- Used - Collectible - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition
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- 1907
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- Hardcover
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Cerrillos, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$51.07
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New York: Macmillan Co., 1907. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Charles Livingston Bull. Spine cocked and rubbed at head and heel, small stains or finger marks on front cover, corners of boards lightly bumped, page edges tanned, front hinge cracked. 242 pp., color frontis., illus.
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BEFORE ADAM
by London, Jack
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1907
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- Hard Cover
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Surprise, Arizona, USA
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NZ$170.22
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 242pp., (4)pp. ads, with 8 full page color plates and with numerous other illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Bound in light brown pictorial cloth depicting animal tracks in brown and gray, lettering red outlined in white. Neat previous owner's name dated 1907. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Adam
by LONDON, Jack
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$42.56
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New York: Macmillan, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Fine in near fine, spine faded dustwrapper with some light soiling, and a light crease to the top of the front panel. Item Price
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Before Adam
by London, Jack
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- Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
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- Collector's Edition. First Printing
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- 1987
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- Leather
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Palatine, Illinois, USA
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NZ$85.11
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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1987. Collector's Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full dark green leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in three compartments, gilt decoration on cover, a.e.g., printed endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Philip Jose Farmer. Collector's… Read more about this item Item Price
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