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Item Details
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| Author: |
London, Jack |
| Title: |
The Red One |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Macmillan & Co. |
| Date: |
1918 |
| Item # : |
186384 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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104 |
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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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$ 270 |
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| 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. |
| A notoriously fragile book, the only London first edition bound in pictorial paper over boards rather than cloth. Inscribed and signed by the author's daughter, Becky London, on the front free endpaper. BAL 11977; Sisson & Martens, p. 97. |
| Condition: |
| Expert repairs to joints and spine ends including some color and lettering retouching, binding stiff from repairs, corners a bit bumped, light rubs; rear endpapers replaced, offsetting to front endpapers, rear blank leaf added; else good, original artwork still clean and attractive. |
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