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The Game

by LONDON, Jack

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition. Second Issue, with rubber-stamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. on copyright page. Octavo; teal vertical-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt, white, red and brown to spine and front panel; decorative endpapers; top edge gilt; 182pp, [6] ads; illus. Brief contemporary inscription to verso of frontispiece, some trivial rubbing to spine ends and lower board edges, else very Near Fine. Illustrated by Henry Hutt & T.C. Lawrence. London's fourteenth book, a boxing novel about a boxer's final fight. BAL 11886.

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Many patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floor two of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged the debate between desire pocket-book. The head of the department did them the honor of waiting upon them himself or did Joe the honor, as she well knew, for she had noted the open-mouthed awe of the elevator boy who brought them up.

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Bookseller
Lorne Bair Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
19188
Title
The Game
Author
LONDON, Jack
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
First Edition
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1905
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Modern Fiction;

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