Burning Daylight by London, Jack - 1910

New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good+. 1910. 1st Edition; 2nd State. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. Possible second state of the text block (according to Sisson page 48.) with the three blank leaves at the rear of the book before the endpaper. First state of the boards (covers) with just MacMillan on the bottom spine of the book cover. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. There is a small spot of rubbing to the spine below the illustrated tree. There is some light rubbing and a light scratch to the yellow color on the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There are 8 inserted, full-page illustrations throughout the text. The top edge of the text block has noticeable ground-in dirt. "Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. The novel was subsequently filmed as a First National movie starring Milton Sills with Doris Kenyon. " (from Wikipedia) .