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Jack London: A Private Collection
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Title: Before Adam
Author: London, Jack Description: vii, [1], 242 + [4] ad pp. Color frontispiece & 7 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull, double-page inserted map; drawings within text. Light brown buckram lettered in red & white, cover illustration of footprints in dark brown and cream; edges untrimmed. Pictorial jacket. First Edition.Scarce jacketed copy of London's novel of human prehistory. Jacket design of beastly footprints printed in maroon on cream paper duplicates the book's cover art. BAL 11903; Sisson & Martens, p. 33. Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: Macmillan Co. Date Published: 1907 Condition reportCovers quite clean and unworn; acid burn from jacket to endpapers, else fine in restored jacket with repairs at flap folds and edges; front and rear jacket panels beginning to separate at spine.
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