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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 #60 The Scarlet Plague

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$2,250

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

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Description

Title:

The Scarlet Plague

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Macmillan Co.

Date Published:

1915

Description:

181, [3] + [4] ad pp. Frontispiece and drawings by Gordon Grant; decorative endpapers. Plum red cloth decorated in red-orange and yellow, lettered in red-orange on front cover, in gilt on spine. Jacket. First Edition.

With the rare cream paper dust jacket printed in red and black, publisher's label mounted on spine announcing "Illustrated by Gordon Grant - Price $1.00." Jack London's distinctive wolf bookplate mounted to front pastedown. BAL 11960; Sisson & Martens, p. 7.

Condition:

Slight wear to spine tips; hinges starting, still very good, in near very good original unrestored jacket with shallow chipping to edges, slight overall soiling.

Item#:

194679

Headline:

Jack London Scarlet Plague First in Jacket
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