Burning Daylight by London, Jack - 1910

New York: Macmillan Company, 1910. First Edition. First printing Very good- in blue cloth covered boards with white text on the spine and front board. The cloth at the head of the spine is worn and rubbed and beginning to fray. At the heel of the spine the cloth is rubbed and the text lettering on the spine remains only in fragments. The text on the front board is all intact. There is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with the same owner's name in pencil (together with a date of Oct. 1910) on the first free end page. Missing its very scarce dust jacket. 361 pages of text followed by eleven pages of ads by the publisher. An attractive first edition with "Macmillan" at the base of the spine and with one blank page at the end of the text and a blank leaf at the rear of the advertisements. (BAL, 11918; Sisson p. 48; Woodbridge, 75)