Michael Brother of Jerry
by London, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: the MacMillan Company, 1917. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. [i-x], 1-344, [+ title leaf, 8 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover; the front also has the authors name in black text and an image of dogs. The boards are somewhat bumped and worn at corners and ends of spine; they are also rubbed with a small stain on back and some mild bubbling. Inscription from the previous owner (1917) on front free endpaper. Colour frontis. Clean tight text block with only a couple of mild stains. Long outer edge of text block roughly trimmed. A lovely copy. very good Sissons & Martens; 96. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 Ñ November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. This book was published post-humously. 1917
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132331
- Title
- Michael Brother of Jerry
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- the MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- American Author|American Literature|First Edition|Jack London|Literature|Modern 1STS
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...