Before Adam / Jack London

Name/Title

Before Adam / Jack London

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.337

Description

242 pages. Numerous illustrations by Charles Livingstone Bull.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1910s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Jack London

Illustrator

Charles Livingston Bull

Edition

Reprint

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1912

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

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.

Notes

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