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12:00 PM PT - Sep 18th, 2008
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Title: Dutch Courage and Other Stories
Author: London, Jack 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.Very 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 Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: Macmillan Co. Date Published: 1922 Condition reportTop edge slightly dusty; small rusty spot to fore-edge and bottom edge, else very fine - nearly as-new, in near fine unrestored jacket with inch and a half closed horizontal tear across part of spine and onto front panel; 2 small puckered tears to rear flap fold; some creasing; front flap clipped diagonally from top to bottom taking the "e" from Courage at top of flap, publisher's printed $1.75 price remains at bottom edge of flap.
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