Burning Daylight

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 1st Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 3/4" High. Color Frontispiece. [Viii], 361+ Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth Stamped In White, Darker Blue And Yellow. First Edition. One Of 27,108 Copies. "Set Up And Electrotyped. Published October,1910" On Copyright Page, Signatures Signed B To 2A, Spine Imprint "The Macmillan Company" In Letters About 2.5 Cm Tall, Three Final Blanks Before Free Blank Endpaper. Merle Johnson States Earliest Known Presentation Copies Have This Three Line Spine Imprint, Although Bal Notes A Copy In The Ny Public Library Inscribed By London On Oct. 15, 1910, With The One Line Imprint, And Bal Found No Copies With This Three Line Imprint. However, The Usually Definitive Sisson And Martens Bibliography Of Jack London First Editions Finds The Presence Of The Signature Marks And One Final Blank To Indicate The First Printing, And The Absence Of Signature Marks And Three Blank Leaves With Leaves [24] 2-3 Inserted, To Indicate A Second Printing, And Does Not Find The Spine Imprint To Be Definable As First Or Second State; This Copy With Signed Signatures And Three Blank Leaves Does Not Fit Easily Into These Descriptions. Bal Also Finds The One Final Blank To Be The First Printing And The Three Blanks To Be A Second Printing. None Of This Is Definitive, As Mixed States, Not Fitting Into Any Of This Dual Classifications, Are Common, And It Is Clear That The Three Line Spine Imprint Is Much Scarcer. Of More Relevance, All Other Jack London First Editions From Macmillan 1902-1910, Except The Thin "Scorn Of Women, 1906, Have The Three Line Imprint, And All Editions 1911 And Thereafter, Except The Thin "The Acorn Planter", 1916, Have The One Line Imprint. Bright And Clean, No Loss Of White Lettering, A Few Tiny Losses To Yellow Sky. Owner's Signature On Front Free Endpaper.