THE SEA WOLF
by London, Jack
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Redding, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York:: The Macmillan Co.,, 1904. Original pictorial blue cloth. A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. The Sea-Wolf also introduces Jack London's most memorable, fully realized character, Wolf Larsen, the schooner's brutal captain, who ruthlessly crushes anyone standing in his way. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. A beautiful copy.. First Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by W.J. Aylward. 8vo..
Synopsis
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them. Its first printing of forty thousand copies were immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 884731
- Title
- THE SEA WOLF
- Author
- London, Jack
- Illustrator
- W.J. Aylward
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Co.,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- NY2008;
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