Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: The Antiquity of Man, Volume II by Sir Arthur Keith. Second edition, sixth impression. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1925. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9, 756 pages. Neatly signed on the first free end page in pencil, “Clarence Darrow.” Autographic condition: very good, with heavy toning and dampstaining to signed page. Book condition: G/None. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and decorative skull to cover; edges worn with small tears in cloth at corners and spine-ends; significant water damage to front cover, also visible on first few pages; shaken and shelf-cocked; yellowed; few hinges cracked; minor soiling and edgewear. Accompanied by The Antiquity of Man, Volume I, signed on the first free end page in black ink by the author, “Arthur Keith, Royal College of Surgeons, London, Sept. 30th, 1927.” Chapters 26 through 36 in Volume II are devoted to the Piltdown Man, the supposed fossilized remains of an early human which were later found to be a hoax. The fossil was introduced as evidence by Clarence Darrow in defense of John Scopes during the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. Accompanying volume in VG+ condition.
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