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BURNING DAYLIGHT
by LONDON, JACK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Wear, Soiling/Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. White lettering chipped on front coverf, cloth wrinkles, spine faded with loss of white lettering. Small rip in cloth 2" from foot of spine. Frontispiece illustration is MISSING. The other seven plates are present. Text block is clean. "Published October, 1910" on copyright page. 361 pp. + 12 pages of adverts.See Sisson/Martens pp.47-48 and BAL 11918. In spite of the significant faults, we decided to save this copy, dress it up with a FACSIMILE FIRST EDITION DUST JACKET, and offer it at a quite reasonable price! This was London's best-selling book during his lifetime. It took place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character's nickname is the title of the book. John Griffith London lived from 1876-1916. . First American Edition. Blue Cloth. General Wear, Soiling/Facsimile Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015230
- Title
- BURNING DAYLIGHT
- Author
- LONDON, JACK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Wear, Soiling
- Jacket Condition
- Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Facsimile
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- Copyright page
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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