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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 #79When God Laughs

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$2,375

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

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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

Description

Title:

When God Laughs

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Macmillan Co.

Date Published:

1911

Description:

ix, [1], 319, [1] + [4] ad pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 plates. Olive green cloth decorated in red and light green, lettered in gilt. Jacket. First Edition.

Fine copy in original jacket. Noted book collector John Stuart Groves copy with his small leather bookplate to front pastedown. BAL 11926; Sisson & Martens, p. 51.

Condition:

Top edge dusty; light rubbing to edges; offsetting from bookplate, else fine in unrestored jacket with large chip at top of spine portion extending onto rear panel; bottom 2 inches of spine portion gone; chips to corners; front panel largely intact.

Item#:

194660

Headline:

Jack London's When God Laughs, First in Jacket
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