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The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition and presumed second issue with the words "Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904" printed on the copyright page. Publishing date 1904 on title page and copyright notices 1903 and 1904 on copyright page. Pictorial blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; 8vo; pp. [6], 366, [3] (ads), plus frontispiece and 5 plates. Light spotting to spine. Light wear to tips; Small, contemporary ownership signature on FFEP. Half-inch closed tear near gutter on page vii (List of Illustrations)
Synopsis
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them. Its first printing of forty thousand copies were immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild.
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- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3031
- Title
- The Sea-Wolf
- Author
- Jack London
- Illustrator
- W J Aylward
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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- Spine
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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- Copyright page
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
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