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Before Adam
by London, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Vg/No Jacket
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
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 in text. An acceptable copy.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale Cournoyer Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 937
- Title
- Before Adam
- Author
- London, Jack
- Illustrator
- Charles Livingston Bull
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Jack London the Call of the Wild Before Adam
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Poetry;
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About the Seller
Dale Cournoyer Books
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Acceptable
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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