You Shall Know Them

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. Book-of-the-Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 249pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards. Top edge stained red. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. A sharp copy, in a dust jacket (with rubbing to the surface). #216 in "American Lost-Race Fiction: The Stuart Teitler Collection," a catalog produced in 2008 by Serendipity Books of Berkeley, California. A novel with a "strange creature who mothered the 'son' that Douglas killed, is quartered happily in London Zoo. Not science nor philosophy, not Parliament nor clergy, can decide if she is manlike ape or apelike man." - Dust Jacket.