Before Adam
by London, Jack
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1962. Bound in the publishers bright yellow cloth hardboards with cinnamon coloured cloth and black title lettering to spine. The 172 pages remain in fresh, clean condition throughout and are tightly bound. Double matching endpapers to front and rear of book. Excellent black and white full page illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. Biographical introduction by Willy Ley with epilogue by Loren Eiseley. Housed in the colourful dustwrapper designed by Leonard Everett Fisher with publishers printed price intact on front inside flap. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. Photographs of the book and the dustwrapper are available on request. This is the first edition thus of a very nice copy of an unusual Jack London title.. First Edition Thus. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Leonard Everett Fisher.
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
- The Rare Book Shelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000637
- Title
- Before Adam
- Author
- London, Jack
- Illustrator
- Leonard Everett Fisher
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
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Herefordshire
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