The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star
by LONDON, Jack
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
N.p.: [Jack London Amateur Press Club], N.d.. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 6 unnumbered leaves. Fine. Undated reissue (ca. 1940s) of the privately printed edition of 1932. An uncommon bit of London juvenilia, a poem of 17 stanzas written around 1899 and originally published in the San Francisco Call in 1899. The manuscript was rediscovered in 1932 and printed (anonymously) in a limited edition, and subsequently reissued as here under the auspices of the Jack London Amateur Press Club. WOODBRIDGE 1061. BAL 11989.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24568
- Title
- The Sea Sprite and the Shooting Star
- Author
- LONDON, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- [Jack London Amateur Press Club]
- Place of Publication
- N.p.
- Date Published
- N.d.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Modern Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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