The Great Monkey Trial
by De Camp, L. Sprague
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped dust jacket, has light scratch across front panel, otherwise only light wear. Book shows light wear to extremities. ; Bright solid book, hinges intact, black cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Stated first edition ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 538 pages; "The true story of a court battle that began on a hot July day in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. Everyone gathered upon the small town to watch the spectacle of John Scopes being tried for the offense of teaching evolution to his high school biology class." Clarence Darrow pitted against William Jennings Bryant to decide the fate of a teacher who tried to educate his students. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21453
- Title
- The Great Monkey Trial
- Author
- De Camp, L. Sprague
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Evolution, scopes, Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryant, Darwin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Law; SCIENCE;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....