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Sale 368: Jack London & His Circle: The Collection of Donald Bauer (#368) 11/15/2007 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 11/15/2007 1:00 PM PST

Lot #72 The Red One

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,125

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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Description

Title:

The Red One

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Macmillan & Co.

Date Published:

1918

Description:

[vi], 193, [3] + [4] ad pp. Frontispiece portrait of London from a photograph by Arnold Genthe. 7½x5, brown boards decorated in black, blue and red. First Edition.

Nice copy of a notoriously fragile book - the only London first edition bound in pictorial paper over boards rather than cloth. Charmian London's bookplate mounted to front pastedown. BAL 11977; Sisson & Martens, p. 97

Condition:

Small chips to spine ends; corner tips rubbed; usual darkening to endpapers, else near fine.

Item#:

193032

Headline:

Jack London The Red One 1st edition
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