The book of Jack London
by LONDON, CHARMIAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co, 1921. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 422, [3]; viii, 414; 43 illustrations on 32 plates, 2 other full-p. illustrations in the text; original green cloth, spines faded, front hinge of vol. II cracked; a good set. Ostensibly Charmian's own copy, with her bookplate in each volume, and with a 1932 inscription from her in each volume to B. J. Hart "with best wishes from the author, Charmian London." Also, with her tipped in signature on the front free flyleaf, a long autograph postcard from her mounted to the front pastedown regarding "this frightful disaster that has overtaken the South," etc., 2 printed poems of Jack London's pasted in on preliminaries, and a typed note signed by Charmian pasted to the rear pastedown in vol. II to Woodruff Book Store in Los Angeles asking for a 10% discount on London's The Valley of the Moon, together with typed envelope,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33941
- Title
- The book of Jack London
- Author
- LONDON, CHARMIAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Century Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Jack London , California , ,
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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