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Sale 388: Jack London: A Private Collection (#388) 09/18/2008 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/18/2008 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #41 The Cruise of the Snark.

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$4,687.50

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Description

Title:

The Cruise of the Snark.

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Macmillan & Co.

Date Published:

1911

Description:

xiv, 340, [2], + [4] ad pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece of the Snark and 120 plates from photographs. Blue-green cloth lettered in gilt, color pictorial cover label, top edge gilt. Pictorial jacket. First Edition.

Beautiful copy of Jack London's own account of the problematical "Snark" voyage. Color pictorial jacket duplicates color frontispiece. Rare in jacket. BAL 11929; Sisson & Martens, p. 57.

Condition:

Faintest trace of darkening to spine cloth, else fine in good, moderately worn, unrestored jacket with chip at bottom of front cover panel, small chips to jacket spine ends; chips and tears to rear panel.

Item#:

194659

Headline:

Jack London's Cruise of the Snark, 1st in jacket
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