The Son of the Sun.: Illustrated by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley.
by LONDON, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1912. First edition, first printing, of this collection of eight short stories featuring the adventures of Captain David Grief in the South seas. Written by London after two-year voyage in the Pacific, The Son of the Sun is "atmospheric, exciting, humorous, action-packed
London presents in David Grief a character who sheds light on the complexities of the writer's own personality. As a world-traveled adventurer, as a self-made man who rose by his own gifts to become one of the best-selling of all American writers
as a darkening and imaginative rancher-entrepreneur, the author seems to have created David Grief as a dream self-extension that celebrates business savvy, freedom, superiority, and strength" (Riedl & Tietze, p. xviii-xxxiii). The stories had originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1911. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, ship vignette to front cover. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box. Half-tone frontispiece and 3 plates. Occasional light wear to extremities, sides bright, small bump to lower edge of book block, contents clean: a near-fine copy. Gary Riedl & Thomas R. Tietze, eds., A Son of the Sun. The Adventures of Captain David Grief, 2001.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160284
- Title
- The Son of the Sun.
- Author
- LONDON, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Date Published
- 1912
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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