Author: LONDON, JACK
Title: A Son of the Sun
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley. B&W Illustrations; First edition with points noted in SIsson, pages 63-64. The book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright and include four full-page black and white illustrations by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper and the front pastedown page has a sticker from the Woodbury Thread & Needle Shop lending library (of Boston, MA) adhered. There are NO other library markings of any kind. "A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Jack London Ships & Sailing Polynesia
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Title: A Son of the Sun
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley. B&W Illustrations; First edition with points noted in SIsson, pages 63-64. The book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright and include four full-page black and white illustrations by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper and the front pastedown page has a sticker from the Woodbury Thread & Needle Shop lending library (of Boston, MA) adhered. There are NO other library markings of any kind. "A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Jack London Ships & Sailing Polynesia
Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 40762
- Book number: 40762
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