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Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight

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Burning Daylight

by London, Jack

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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. First Edition. "Set Up And Electrotyped. Published October,1910" On Copyright Page, Signatures Signed B To 2A, Spine Imprint "Macmillan" In Letters About 3.5 Cm Tall, Three Final Blanks Before Rear Blank Free Endpaper. One Of 27,108 Copies. Blue Cloth Stamped In White, Darker Blue And Yellow. Merle Johnson States Earliest Known Presentation Copies Have A 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 Final 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 Bright And Clean, No Loss Of White Lettering, A Few Tiny Losses To Yellow Sky, Very Slight Aging To Spine, No Fraying, Hinges Solid. Previous Owner's Signature On Front Endpaper Dated Jan 26, 1911.

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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Bookseller
Arroyo Seco Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
042903
Title
Burning Daylight
Author
London, Jack
Illustrator
Color Frontispiece
Format/Binding
Blue Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
No Dust Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1910
Size
7 3/4" High
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
General
Bookseller catalogs
"Miscellany #20 Jack London; Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century;

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