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Item Details
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| Author: |
London, Jack |
| Title: |
The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North |
| Place: |
Boston |
| Publisher: |
Houghton, Mifflin |
| Date: |
1900 |
| Item # : |
184984 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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107 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 840 |
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| Description: |
| [viii] (including front flyleaf), 251, [1] pp. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon with tissue-guard. (8vo) 7½x4¾, dark gray cloth stamped in silver. First Edition, First Printing. |
| First printing of London's first book. Identifiable by collation (per BAL) or by two more obvious issue points which have recently been identified: first issue has tipped-in frontispiece, later issues with frontispiece sewn in; first issue has comma after the year (1900) on copyright page, later issues have punctuation corrected with a period. BAL 11869; Sisson & Martens, p. 1. |
| Condition: |
| Mild tarnishing of silver stamping on spine, more to front cover corners; old name to front free endpaper (dated 1900), occasional pencil markings; otherwise very good. |
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