Before Adam London, Jack Literature & Poetry

8vo. vii, [1], 242 + [4] advertisements pp; many pages unopened. Color frontispiece & 7 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull, double-page inserted map; drawings within text. Light brown buckram with red & white lettering on spine and front board; 6 ape-like footprints in dark brown on front cover & spine. In rare publisher's unrestored light brown dust jacket printed in red. Light fading to spine; else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket (two small chips at spine end; light brown line down spine; small dark spot on front flap). Serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine, "Before Adam" is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid, offering an early view of human evolution. (BAL 11903; Sisson & Martens p. 34).