JERRY OF THE ISLANDS
by London, Jack
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Rubbing to edges of covers, contemporary owner name to top of front free endpaper, else very good.
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan, 1917. First edition, first printing. Rubbing to edges of covers, contemporary owner name to top of front free endpaper, else very good.. Original red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt and black, octavo, ix, 337 pp. Color frontispiece. Publisher's 6-page catalogue of Jack London's books and 1 title by Alfred W. Pollard at rear
With 2 typographical errors in the text as noted by Sisson & Martens: on page 45, line 4 "jnmping" for "jumping" and page 323, line 7 "Vila" for "Villa" (Sisson & Martens erroneousy locate this typo at page 333), Sisson & Martens page 94; BAL 11973.
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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- 21943
- Title
- JERRY OF THE ISLANDS
- Author
- London, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used - Rubbing to edges of covers, contemporary owner name to top of front free endpaper, else very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1917
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