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Jerry of the Islands
by London, Jack
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Warsaw, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
MacMillan, 1917
Bound in reddish brown cloth with black dog decorations and bright gilt titles, 337 pp plus 6 pp ads, color frontis. First edition first state with "jumping" misspelled on p 45. Published April, 1917. Decorations and titles are quite bright. Spine is the slightest bit faded, going from a red brown to a brown red. A touch rubbed at tips, slight bump at the lower front gutter and upper rear board. A bright attractive copy.
Synopsis
From the book:It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average person's mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination. As regards reality - they said there wasn't any. Of course, as every one knew, kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earth's surface, much less ran around with nothing on, chopping off one another's heads, and, on occasion, a white man's head as well. Now listen. I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yesterday, on the beach at Waikiki, a stranger spoke to me. He mentioned a mutual friend, Captain Kellar. When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugenie, who rescued me. The blacks had taken Captain Kellar's head, the stranger told me. He knew. He had represented Captain Kellar's mother in settling up the estate.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002416
- Title
- Jerry of the Islands
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Date Published
- 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Books returnable if not as described and returned in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Biblio member since 2006
Warsaw, Indiana
About Kerkhoff Books Div KSI
Primarily online seller with emphasis on better quality books.In the book business since the mid 1980s.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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