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Jack London Before Adam First Edition
Jack London Before Adam First Edition
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Description
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Author: London, Jack
Title: Before Adam
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Macmillan Company
Date Published: 1907
Description: vii, [1], 242, [4] ad. pp. Color frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull, double-page inserted map. (8vo) original light brown cloth lettered in red and white, cover illustration of footprints in dark brown and gray, deckled fore-edge, custom quarter morocco and cloth slipcase and cloth chemise. First Edition.London‘s first foray into science-fiction, a novel of prehistoric life. BAL 11903; Sisson & Martens, p.33.
Condition
Some wear and staining to slipcase, volume hinges shaken, owner marks to front and rear endpapers, tear to frontispiece leaf not affecting image; near fine.
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