The First Men in the World (Landmark Books, Number W-1)

Description: Illustrated by Aldren Watson. This is Number W-1 in the World Landmark Books series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. Anne Terry White is the author of three others in the Landmark series -- Prehistoric America; George Washington Carver, the Story of a Great American; and Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater. Here she tells the story of our stone age ancestors and how they were discovered. It is also the story of some of the first men of our own kind who lived in the New Stone Age when man first became a farmer. This copy includes a laid in letter to the young reader with a message from the author talking a bit about the subject; the letter is signed in blue ink (this is a FACSIMILE signature). Only the Book of the Month Club Young Readers series were issued with these letters. BINDING/CONDITION: aqua cloth with title and series device printed on the front cover, the top edge tint is yellow; bookplate, a Good book, with a Good dust jacket. The top edge of the letter is browned and worn. index. Landmark endpaper style with two-color scenes. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 178 pages. Young Readers of America edition; 5th Printing.…