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THE STAR ROVER
by LONDON, JACK
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Corner and Edge Wear Onl/Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt, designed in blue, black, and white. See photos. Color frontispiece. Quite a clean and crisp copy. London considered an alternate title of "The Jacket" , and it was used in some British editions. First published in serial form in the Los Angeles Examiner, Sunday Monthly Magazine" from February-October 1914. A total of 13,021 copies were published. Provided with a FACSIMILE FIRST EDITION DUST JACKET. See Sisson/Martens pp.83-84 and BAL 11960. 329pp. + 8 pages of adverts. This novel in in the science fiction genre. It concerns a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison who is tortures with a device known as 'the jacket". He learns to withstand the torture by entering a trance-like state and wandering among the stars. The author John Griffith London lived from 1876-1916.. First American Edition. Blue Cloth. Light Corner and Edge Wear Onl/Facsimile Dust Jacket. Octavo.
Synopsis
Lorenzo Carcaterra is the author of the novels Sleepers , Apaches , Gangster , and Street Boys , and a memoir, A Safe Place . He lives in New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015225
- Title
- THE STAR ROVER
- Author
- LONDON, JACK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Corner and Edge Wear Onl
- Jacket Condition
- Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Adventure, Jack London, Science Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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....
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
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