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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 #51 John Barleycorn

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$5,000

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

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Description

Title:

John Barleycorn

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Century Co.

Date Published:

1913

Description:

[vi], 343, [1] pp. Frontispiece and 7 plates by H. T. Dunn. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Printing.

Rare jacketed first printing of London's "alcoholic memoir." First printing with single leaf between last text page and rear free endpaper. BAL 11946; Sisson & Martens, p. 71.

Condition:

Slight dust soiling to top edge; previous owner's blind embossed stamp to bottom corner of front free endpaper and frontispiece, else fine in near very good original unrestored jacket with wear to flap folds, shallow chips and a few closed tears to edges.

Item#:

194678

Headline:

Jack London John Barleycorn 1st in d/j
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