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London, Jack. A Son of the Sun. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight wear of the spine ends. The cover is generally dull but the lettering clear. The front ffep is missing.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
London, Jack. A Son of the Sun. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1912.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictorial hardcover light blue and white design on very dark blue cloth, light rubbing to edges; frontispiece and 3 other illustrations all present; spine lightly age-darkened, text block clean tight and unmarked, previous owner name ffep, binding very slightly slanted; overall condition VG-
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$197.50 + shipping
Description: [viii] 333p., frontispiece and 3 illustrations inserted, very slight split starting at front hinge, otherwise a very good first edition, first prinbting in blue cloth boards with gray lettering and vignette of sailing ship and clouds with white sails and orange trim, very mild shelf wear. Sisson page 64, BAL 11937.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. A Son of the Sun. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1912.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First Printing. In Very Good condition. scuffing and edge wear to cloth, with a chip to the top of the spine cloth, and chipping to white stamping on front cover. Light shelf lean to binding. First edition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. A Son Of The Sun. Doubleday Page & Company, New York, 1912.
Price: US$382.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Viii], 333 . Blue Cloth Stamped In Grey, White, And Red. First Printing. Bright And Clean, Some Rubbing, No Loss Of Gray Lettering, Hinges Tight. Former Owner's Signature (G. T. Temple) Dated Sept. 18, 1912. Tiny Fray At Top Of Spine, And At Each Of Two Lower Tips; Three Areas Of Fraying On Bottom Edge Of Spine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: TITLE: A SON OF THE SUN By JACK LONDON 1912 First Edition Doubleday (Scarce!) AUTHOR: JACK LONDON PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: DOUBLEDAY, NY there is a 1911 Curtis Publishing and a 1912 Doubleday on the copyright page with 1912 Doubleday repeated on the title page EDITION: First Edition for Doubleday ISBN: None CATEGORY: Adventure, Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: Blue SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 333 pages. CONDITION: The outside is in good condition for its age; there is a really minor like wax or shiny substance near the bottom edge of the front board; there are light rubs to the edges. There is a private 'LESLIE BRIGGS LIBRARY' stamp on the first front free endpaper along with an imprint of a pencil erasure. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Illustrated by A. O. FISCHER and C. W. ASHLEY. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! We offer free gift wrapping year round on all our products regardless of item's cost. REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: RSTC 009206 We support FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY nationwide with donations and purchases.
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. A Son of the Sun. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1912.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Description: 333pp. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in grey, ivory, and orange on the front panel, and lettered in grey on the spine panel. Frontispiece and three inserted plates with illustrations by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley. Collects eight stories featuring David Grief. Light wear to extremities, a couple of small smudges to text. A near fine copy. BAL 11937. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$643.82 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of this collection of eight short stories featuring the adventures of Captain David Grief in the South seas. Written by London after two-year voyage in the Pacific, The Son of the Sun is "atmospheric, exciting, humorous, action-packed London presents in David Grief a character who sheds light on the complexities of the writer's own personality. As a world-traveled adventurer, as a self-made man who rose by his own gifts to become one of the best-selling of all American writers as a darkening and imaginative rancher-entrepreneur, the author seems to have created David Grief as a dream self-extension that celebrates business savvy, freedom, superiority, and strength" (Riedl & Tietze, p. xviii-xxxiii). The stories had originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1911. Gary Riedl & Thomas R. Tietze, eds., A Son of the Sun. The Adventures of Captain David Grief, 2001. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, ship vignette to front cover. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box. Half-tone frontispiece and 3 plates. Occasional light wear to extremities, sides bright, small bump to lower edge of book block, contents clean: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Jack London (1876-1916). A Son of the Sun. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, 1912.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [i-viii], [1-2], [3]-333 pages with frontispiece and three other black and white illustrations. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2"). Bound in original publisher's steel-blue cloth with light blue lettering to cover and spine, cover illustrated embossed ship with white sales and orange trim, surrounded by gray clouds. Illustrated by A O Fischer and C W Ashley. Signed processed check drawn on The Merchants National Bank of San Francisco, dated 1909 to Frank E Davis Fish Company for $37.55 in London's hand laid in. [BAL 11937; Sissons & Martens 63] First edition, First issue. This volume, like Smoke Bellew, is divided into chapters, possibly explaining why it has been variously characterized as "a Polynesian novel," "a Melanesian novel," and "a collection of short stories. Condition: Shelf wear, corners bumped, spine ends and corners moderately rubbed, lightly soiled. A very good copy lacking dust jacket. Check in very good condition with perforated cancellation to check.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
London, Jack. A Son of the Sun. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1912.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy of one of the rarest London titles in dustjacket. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with slight soiling to the top spine of this dustjacket. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $1.20 printed price present on the spine of the dustjacket. The book is in fabulous shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy housed in a custom clamshell box for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.