Burning Daylight
by London, Jack
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good, but Torn and Chipped
- Seller
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Port Dover, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
A$51.17A$46.05
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1916. Thirteenth printing, November 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/Good, but Torn and Chipped. The illustration on front board is same as dust jacket of a man and dog. The book has no tears or fraying and light foxing oft he 361 pages. Previous owners signature front free page. The front flap of the dust jacket is missing and there are other chips and tears, all in a broadart cover now.
Synopsis
Partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith, Burning Daylight was Jack London's best selling book during his lifetime. The novel is set in the Yukon Territory in 1893, telling the story of an adventurer, nicknamed “Burning Daylight,” who went to Alaska and laid the foundations of his fortune before the gold hunters arrived. Burning Daylight was adapted for American films in 1914, 1920, 1928, and 2010.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Olmstead Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9294
- Title
- Burning Daylight
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good, but Torn and Chipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Thirteenth printing, November 1916
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Gold rush
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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