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The Game
by London, Jack (1876-1916)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Better than very good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
182+[6 ad] pages with six color plates including frontispiece, with numerous decorations by Henry Hutt and T C Laurence. Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with white and gilt decoration and lettering to spine and red lettering and white and brown pictorial decoration on front board. (BAL 11886; Sisson & Martens 24 7 121) First edition with large rubber rubber-stamp of Metropolitan Magazine Company on copyright page. A run of 26, 420 were printed in jacket.
The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.
Condition: Book plate on front paste down, corners rubbed, light shelf wear, spine ends rubbed else better than very good.
The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.
Condition: Book plate on front paste down, corners rubbed, light shelf wear, spine ends rubbed else better than very good.
Synopsis
Many patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floor two of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged the debate between desire pocket-book. The head of the department did them the honor of waiting upon them himself or did Joe the honor, as she well knew, for she had noted the open-mouthed awe of the elevator boy who brought them up.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS001434
- Title
- The Game
- Author
- London, Jack (1876-1916)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Better than very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 182+[6 ad] pages with six color plates including frontispiece, with numerous decorations by Henry Hutt and T C Laurence.
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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