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The Abysmal Brute
by London, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Canadian Edition, published at the same time as the American version ("May, 1913"); identical, with the exception of the publisher name on the Title Page and spine. Less common than the American. Olive green cloth binding, decorated in black and with yellow titling on the front cover. Clean text; 169 pages, with the last page having a publisher advert on the reverse. Frontis illustration by Gordon Grant. Bumped, spine darkened and the lettering somewhat rubbed. Previous-owned signature on the TP; faint evidence of erasures on the FFEP; several spots on the front cover. . First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Grant. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Jack London's tale of the corruption of prize fighting -- and the one young fighter who dared to stand up against it!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004960
- Title
- The Abysmal Brute
- Author
- London, Jack
- Illustrator
- Gordon Grant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Bell & Cockburn
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Erasures
- Erasures indicates marks where someone has removed bits of text or content from a book. In Book Arts, erasures can also mean a...
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