First edition, first impression. 256pp, plus central section of colour plate illustrations. Quarter bound in black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Covers very slightly pushed at corners and spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, bumped at edges and very slightly rubbed in lower leading corner.
The first-hand story of how the discoveries of two maverick geologists shook the scientific work and changed understandings of human evolution.
