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Before Adam / Jack London

2015.7.337

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1910s

7-1/2 in

Jack London

Charles Livingston Bull

Reprint

New York

New York

United States

North America

1912

Publisher's Binding

Bound in pale green cloth hardcovers stamped in blue and red depicting the footprints of a prehistoric precursor to man in a wrap-around design to spine. In a dust jacket designed by Charles Livingston Bull showing a scene of ape-like creatures on sprawling, twisting, tree roots, hanging vines, water, and a serpent.

First published by Macmillan in 1907, "Published by Arrangement with The Macmillan Co.". Flyleaf inscription: May. Gene 1919

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