Jack London: Sailor on Horseback

New York, NY: Pocket Books: Giant Cardinal Editions. Very Good. 1960. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback.. Four pages show UNDERLINING IN INK. Else, Very Good in Wraps: shows faint creases near the corners of the panels and a couple more at backstrip; some wear around the edges of the backstrip; the expected light tanning to the text pages; the binding is very slightly cocked but remains secure. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.35 x 4.25 x 0.55 inches) . Index. Language: English. Weight: 5.4 ounces. Uncredited cover portrait of London with a sailboat in the distance. GC-64. First Edition Thus (1960) , so stated. First published in hardcover in 1938. Mass Market Paperback. Jack London "lived as he wrote--colorfully, gustily, passionately", his books number perhaps half a hundred. A hobo at 15, a well-travelled sailor by 17, and by 25, he found literary gold in the Klondike with his tales of survival and seagoing adventure. The finest, most accurate, heartfelt, and insightful biography of one of America's (and the world's) finest authors. Mr. Stone began work on this volume in 1936, just twenty years after Jack London's death. Stone had the full cooperation of London's second wife, Charmian, his sister, Eliza Shepard, and his first wife, Bessie Maddern as well as a multitude of other key individuals who knew Jack London well, and were still living at the time of this book's publication. He was allowed unprecedented access to Jack London's correspondence and business papers, previously kept private, and had the opportunity to interview those people closest to London to gain the kind of first-person insight impossible in later years. We strongly recommend Irving Stone's work as the only definitive, fair-minded portrait of Jack London written with Stone's typical accessible narrative style. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 314 pages .