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The Night Born
by London, Jack
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Modesto, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Century Co.. Very Good. 1913. 1st Edition; 3rd state. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. This book matches the 3rd state listed in Sisson (page 127) with blue grey cloth binding, black totem poles and gilt lettering to the front cover and spine and two blank leaves at the rear of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The front pastedown page includes a previous owner's book plate (John Milton Stewart) , and there is an ink stamped previous owner's name on the front endpaper. The rear inner hinge of the book has begun to crack. "Early in “the unluckiest year of his life” (1913) , during which his dream home in California’s Sonoma Valley burnt down, Jack London, aged thirty-seven, published the short-story collection The Night-Born (Labor, 329). The ten tales in it range from negligible potboilers to such gems as the evocative sketch of a soldier’s life “War”, and the suspenseful fight story “The Mexican”, set during the Mexican Revolution (c. 1910–1920) and embodying London’s “finest allegory of the revolutionary spirit” (Labor, Leitz, Shepard, xxix)." (the Literary Encyclopedia) .
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Details
- Bookseller
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A46300
- Title
- The Night Born
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition; 3rd state
- Publisher
- The Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction First Edition, Jack London, Short Stories, Tarzan, Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
Biblio member since 2003
Modesto, California
About S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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