Uncommon book: Before Adam by Jack London. First edition. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1907. Hardcover bound in the publisher's original pictorial brown cloth, with dust jacket, 5.5 x 7.75, 242 pages. Book condition: VG+/G+, with bands of toning to endpapers, an ownership inscription to half-title page, and several small chips and losses to the jacket. London's novel of prehistoric life offers an early view of human evolution, and marked his first foray into the science fiction genre.
