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Title: The Cruise of the Snark
Author: London, Jack Description: xiv, 340, [2], + [4] ad pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece of the Snark and 120 plates from photographs. Blue-green cloth lettered in gilt, color pictorial cover label, top edge gilt, pictorial jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. First Edition.Jack London's own account of the problematical "Snark" voyage. Pictorial variant jacket, possibly later, duplicates photo found on page 73. Canceled check, signed by Jack London, tipped to front endpaper. Bookplates of Jean Hersholt and Walter T. Shirley BAL 11929; Sisson & Martens, p. 57. Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: Macmillan Date Published: 1911 Condition reportJacket stained and heavily chipped, numerous tape repairs on verso; small nick to front cover illustrations, hinges cracked; else volume very good.
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