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Sale 401: Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries (#401) 04/16/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #200Dutch Courage

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Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

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Sale 401: Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries (#401) 04/16/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Description

Title:

Dutch Courage

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Macmillan

Date Published:

1922

Description:

xii, [4], 180 pp. Frontispiece photograph of Jack London, 7 plates from drawings by G. M. Richards. Red cloth decorated & lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. Pictorial jacket. First Edition.

Fine copy of this posthumous collection of sea stories. The fragile binding is rarely found in very good or better condition and is quite rare in the pictorial jacket. BAL 11977; Sisson & Martens, p. 97

Condition:

Several small chips at jacket edges, front flap price clipped and trimmed diagonally from top to bottom (no loss of text), jacket darkened and soiled; volume fine with just a slight loss of black pigment in the ruled border of the front cover.

Item#:

200816

Headline:

Jack London Dutch Courage 1st Edn in Jacket
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