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Jerry of the Islands
by London, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Werner Laurie, London, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Boards lightly bumped with slight forward lean. Feps browned; page edges lightly spotted. : JACKET: n/a Size: n/a..
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
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6232
- Title
- Jerry of the Islands
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Werner Laurie
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Fiction; Fiction::General & Literary Fiction; London, Jack Jerry of the Islands
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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- Jacket
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