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Before Adam
by London, Jack (1876-1916)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- About very good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
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. (BAL 11903) First edition.
Best known for his tales of the Klondike and the sea, London also made significant contributions to science fiction. In this "sympathetic and convincing" novel of life in the Pliocene epoch, he explores theories of "atavism and the racial unconscious."
Condition: Covers and spine rubbed and soiled, ring stain on back cover, discoloration on end paper and paste down, corners bumped, white around title lettering on front cover faded out, text slightly soiled, plate loose opposite page 24. Else about very good lacking dust jacket.
Synopsis
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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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Before Adam
- Author
- London, Jack (1876-1916)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - About very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Plate
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- Soiled
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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