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Dutch Courage and Other Stories
by London, Jack (1876-1916)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- About very good
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
vii[1]+240+4 ad pages, frontispiece and seven plates. Small Octavo (7 1/2" x 5") Bound in red cloth with black ship's wheel decoration on front cover boarder by two black bands black lettering, Decoration (sailboat with seagulls) on spine and lettering in gilt. 4378 copies printed. [Inscribed by Becky London] London's second daughter to his first wife. [Sisson & Marten's 103] First edition. "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!" Thus Jack London, well along in his career. And thus almost any collection of his adventure stories is acceptable to young readers as well as to their elders. So, in sorting over the few manuscripts still unpublished in book form, while most of them were written primarily for boys and girls, I do not hesitate to include as appropriate a tale such as "Whose Business Is to Live." Condition: Becky London's inscription on front end paper, Corners gently bumped and rubbed, spine ends gently rubbed. Corners professionally retouched, lacks two plates, slight stain to front cover, some darkening to spine else about very good lacking dust wrapper.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L0031
- Title
- Dutch Courage and Other Stories
- Author
- London, Jack (1876-1916)
- Book Condition
- Used - About very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Pages
- vii[1]+240+4 ad pages, frontispiece and seven plates
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Acceptable
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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