The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris
Jonathan Cape, 1st edition 1967
A first edition of Desmond Morris’s best-selling work on the human species.
Hardback. Publisher’s pale green cloth spine with gilt title; oat coloured course cloth sides; patterned endpapers; tinted dark-green to top edge of page-block. In a dustwrapper that is clipped to all corners in the period Jonathan Cape style. 252pp. Size: 8.75 x 6 inches approx. (222mm x 150mm).
Dustwrapper showing light wear to top and bottom edges where the coating has shrunk; a short tear to head of spine; worn and rubbed with some loss to head of spine; a little creased and marked to top edge of front panel. Pencilled annotation to front free endpaper.
Overall, light wear to dustwrapper but otherwise a nice, clean copy.
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