Jerry of the Islands
by London, Jack
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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chorleywood, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: London: Mills and Boon, 1917, 1917. Book. Good. Cloth. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good book without dustwrapper. viii + 275 pages (page ii advertises a list of books by Jack London already published by Mills & Boon) + 4 page of adverts. Published 1917 in middle of verso to Title page. Printed in the USA. This book issue is listed in Woodbridge 149. No names or writings in book. Original red cloth with bright black lettering on spine. Spine as a single 1/4 inch split at top of spine. Red cloth sunned on spine and faded on All pages are pale with age and small age spots on edges. FEP and REP browned with gae and slightly water marked. most pages are browned on their outer edges. . Size 4x6½inches. Not cocked and binding in fair shape. Nice reasonable copy of very rare book..
Synopsis
From the book:It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average person's mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination. As regards reality - they said there wasn't any. Of course, as every one knew, kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earth's surface, much less ran around with nothing on, chopping off one another's heads, and, on occasion, a white man's head as well. Now listen. I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yesterday, on the beach at Waikiki, a stranger spoke to me. He mentioned a mutual friend, Captain Kellar. When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugenie, who rescued me. The blacks had taken Captain Kellar's head, the stranger told me. He knew. He had represented Captain Kellar's mother in settling up the estate.
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Details
- Bookseller
- krokodile books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001047
- Title
- Jerry of the Islands
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Edition
- Publisher
- London: Mills and Boon, 1917
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
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dealing in first editions of modern literature,
illustrated books and philosophy. Krokodile Rare
Books opened for business with rare and
secondhand books in the year 2000.
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