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Before Adam
by London, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Wolfeboro Falls, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1907. 1st Edition . Cloth Bound. Very Good. Charles Bull. VG in beige cloth binding, no jacket. Light rubbing, hinges starting. Top edge cut, other edges uncut. Spine a bit faded. Typical offsetting to endpapers from the missing dust jacket. Color frontispiece and seven plates in text by Charles Livingston Bull.
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
- Dark Hollow Books ®
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004482
- Title
- Before Adam
- Author
- London, Jack
- Illustrator
- Charles Bull
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Fantasy;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
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