A Son of the Sun, 1912, First edition, First printing

333pp with 4 full-page Illustrations by A.O. Fischer and C.W. Ashley. Publishers decorated blue cloth with ship on front board. First edition, first printing with same date on title page and its verso. Octavo.

A collection of eight short stories featuring the adventures of Captain David Grief in the South seas. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals. John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. (Wikipedia)