No Dustjacket, some minor cover wear and some this classic book published in 1932 about the first book. What did the first book look like? Was it printed or written out by hand? Was it made of paper or of some other material? If it is still in existence in what library can it be found? They say that there really was a man once so fool ish as to hunt through all the libraries of the world for the first book. Day after day he searched among heaps and stacks of mouldy books, yellowed with age. His clothes and boots were covered with a thick layer of dust' as if he had been travelling for miles along a dusty way. Finally he met his death falling from a high-step ladder leaning up against the book shelves. But if he had lived a hundred years longer, nothing would ever have come of his search. The first book rotted away in the ground many thousands of years before he was born. The first book was not in the least like a book ofto-day. It had hands and feet. It didn't lie on a shelf. It cou