Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine worn, corner's bumped. Text and illustrations very good. Slight separation beginning, second page.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The MacMillan Company, 1910.
Price: US$18.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover/pages have minor wear but reading quality is still good.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The MacMillan Company, 1910.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Unmarked hardcover, no jacket. Wear to faces and edges of cover. Printing of spine somewhat faded. Binding exposed in gutter between flyleaf and title page, but secure. Some soiling to upper quearter of pages 304 and 305. Light foxing inside cover and flyleaf.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
LONDON, JACK.. BURNING DAYLIGHT. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: White lettering chipped on front coverf, cloth wrinkles, spine faded with loss of white lettering. Small rip in cloth 2" from foot of spine. Frontispiece illustration is MISSING. The other seven plates are present. Text block is clean. "Published October, 1910" on copyright page. 361 pp. + 12 pages of adverts.See Sisson/Martens pp.47-48 and BAL 11918. In spite of the significant faults, we decided to save this copy, dress it up with a FACSIMILE FIRST EDITION DUST JACKET, and offer it at a quite reasonable price! This was London's best-selling book during his lifetime. It took place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character's nickname is the title of the book. John Griffith London lived from 1876-1916. Size: Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. BURNING DAYLIGHT. MACMILLAN CO NY 1910, NY, 1910.
Price: US$38.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G BLUE ILLUST. BOARDS ARE SHELFWORN, SOILED. BUMPED AT SPINE & CORNERS. HINGES STARTED. SM PC PINK PAPER STUCK ON TITLE PAGE
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. MacMillan NY 1910, 1910.
Price: US$44.95 + shipping
Description: 361pp. + ads + 1 blank 8vo 8 black and white plates Pictorial blue cloth with "MacMillan" on spine BAL 11918: 1st printing: 1 not 3 blank leaves. 2 states of spine: Merle Johnson says "The MacMillan Company" is the 1st. Sissell & Martens, Ahearn, assign no priority. Lightly soiled, included top edges, some foxing: VG
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Jack London. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A hardcover in brown cloth boards. A second printing. Frontispiece is detached but included. With 361 pages. Some rubbing to boards, wear at edges, bumped through cloth at corners. Unmarked pages, text free of writing.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Jack London. Burning Daylight. Macmillan and Co, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First printing. Covers worn and rubbed. Front hinge cracked. Names written on the front flyleaf. As-Is.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. Burning Daylight.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 361 pp. plus ads. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth. First edition, second printing. BAL 11918. Binding quite rubbed and soiled with some flaking to the white lettering on the spine; good to very good.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state with three blanks in the rear. Illustrated. Binding moderately rubbed and soiled with a bit of loss at the spine base, spine with most of the white titling rubbed off and a bit of light rippling, final page with a diagonal foredge tear just touching the text, sound and about very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Jack London. Burning Daylight. Grosset & Dunlop, 1910.
Price: US$77.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published by arrangement with The Macmillan Company. A clean unmarked copy with no inscriptions. 361 clean, clear and bright pages just slightly toned with age as should be expected also additional publishers adverts to the rear. Pictorial covers with red lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Overall a well preserved copy. Usual toning and shelf wear should be expected.
Seller: Newtown Rare Books, Dublin, Ireland
Jack London. Burning Daylight. Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1910.
Price: US$78.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition; published October, 1910. Illustrated. White cloth over boards with red lettering on front and spine; illustration on front and spine. Somewhat soiled and discolored. "Published by arrangement with The Macmillan Company." Interior lightly toned, otherwise clean and clear.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Jack London. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Co., 1910.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Burning Daylight" by JACK LONDON. 1910 1st edition, 1st printing; The Macmillan Co.; New York. The book contains a frontispiece and seven other full-page illustrations. From a review: "Burning Daylight is the story of an adventurer who journeys to Alaska to find his fortune. After returning to the lower 48, he is cheated out of his money and recovers it only at gunpoint. He soon embarks on a self-indulgent lifestyle, drinking, gambling and womanizing his way into misery. However, he finds love and soon tries to reverse his profligate ways." The book was one of the best selling titles in 1910, and London's best-selling book in his lifetime. Condition: Clean covers and spine. The white lettering and illustration on the spine have faded a bit. There are a couple tiny cloth tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Pages 318/319 and 320/321 appear to have been attached along the bottom edge and, in the process of separating them, a few small tears resulted. The pages are mostly clean with the exception of a few small stains/smudges here and there. Pages 10 & 13 each have a small tear at the outer edge. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Macmillan Company, 1910. First Edition, First State with one blank leaf following advertisements. Octavo; publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in yellow and white; v,[3],361pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. General edge wear to cloth extremities, lettering rather flaked, especially at spine, ownership signature on front free endpaper aggressively effaced, else Very Good and sound. London's best-selling novel in his lifetime, one of several adventure romances set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Canadian Yukon Territory at the end of the 19th century. BAL 11918, positing that this state may actually be an advanced printing.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, vii, 361pp, [12pp ads]. Original blue cloth, with illustration stamped on front cover. Title stamped in white on front cover and spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, lightly bumped corners, a touch of rubbing to stamped titles. A very good example. A second printing with three blank leaves at rear instead of one. Complete with all listed illustrations, including a frontispiece. (Sisson & Martens 48) (BAL 11918). Jack London (1876-1916) was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity, London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television, most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$202.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Viii], 361+ Ads At Rear. First Edition. "Set Up And Electrotyped. Published October,1910" On Copyright Page, Signatures Signed B To 2A, Spine Imprint "Macmillan" In Letters About 3.5 Cm Tall, Three Final Blanks Before Rear Blank Free Endpaper. One Of 27,108 Copies. Blue Cloth Stamped In White, Darker Blue And Yellow. Merle Johnson States Earliest Known Presentation Copies Have A Three Line Spine Imprint, Although Bal Notes A Copy In The Ny Public Library Inscribed By London On Oct. 15, 1910, With The One Line Imprint, And Bal Found No Copies With This Three Line Imprint. However, The Usually Definitive Sisson And Martens Bibliography Of Jack London First Editions Finds The Presence Of The Signature Marks And One Final Blank To Indicate The First Printing, And The Absence Of Signature Marks And Three Blank Final Leaves With Leaves [24] 2-3 Inserted, To Indicate A Second Printing, And Does Not Find The Spine Imprint To Be Definable As First Or Second State; This Copy With Signed Signatures And Three Blank Leaves Bright And Clean, No Loss Of White Lettering, A Few Tiny Losses To Yellow Sky, Very Slight Aging To Spine, No Fraying, Hinges Solid. Previous Owner's Signature On Front Endpaper Dated Jan 26, 1911.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$231.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Second printing with three blanks at rear. Frontispiece, 362 pages. [12] pp. Advertisements and seven plates inserted. Blanck notes two printings, one with one blank leaf at the back: the second with three blank leaves (Sisson, p. 125). While Macmillan reports 27,108 copies issued. The ads which are undated vary within the early printings. Bound in blue pictorial cloth accented in pale yellow, lettering white, spine lettered and decorated in white, two corners bumped and a bit of finger soiling. London's final novel incorporates Alaska and the Klondike into its settings. It has the feel of an effort by London to return to the fertile ground that he made his name upon, and write his way out of a genre he had become pigeonholed in. There is a passage that some critics feel might have influenced Cormac McCarthy in Blood Meridian. "And yet, men have so behaved since the world began, feasting, fighting and carousing, whether in the dark cave mouth or by the fire of the squat.winning surcease for a few wild moments from the grim reality of their heroic toil." (p. 30). (Blanck 11918).
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 1910.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. Possible second state of the text block (according to Sisson page 48.) with the three blank leaves at the rear of the book before the endpaper. First state of the boards (covers) with just MacMillan on the bottom spine of the book cover. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. There is a small spot of rubbing to the spine below the illustrated tree. There is some light rubbing and a light scratch to the yellow color on the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There are 8 inserted, full-page illustrations throughout the text. The top edge of the text block has noticeable ground-in dirt. "Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. The novel was subsequently filmed as a First National movie starring Milton Sills with Doris Kenyon. " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$283.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Viii], 361+ Ads At Rear. First Edition. "Set Up And Electrotyped. Published October,1910" On Copyright Page, Signatures Signed B To 2A, Spine Imprint "Macmillan" In Letters About 3.5 Cm Tall, Three Final Blanks Before Rear Blank Free Endpaper. One Of 27,108 Copies. Blue Cloth Stamped In White, Darker Blue And Yellow. Merle Johnson States Earliest Known Presentation Copies Have A Three Line Spine Imprint, Although Bal Notes A Copy In The Ny Public Library Inscribed By London On Oct. 15, 1910, With The One Line Imprint, And Bal Found No Copies With This Three Line Imprint. However, The Usually Definitive Sisson And Martens Bibliography Of Jack London First Editions Finds The Presence Of The Signature Marks And One Final Blank To Indicate The First Printing, And The Absence Of Signature Marks And Three Blank Final Leaves With Leaves [24] 2-3 Inserted, To Indicate A Second Printing, And Does Not Find The Spine Imprint To Be Definable As First Or Second State; This Copy With Signed Signatures And Three Blank Leaves Does Not Fit Easily Into Their Description. Bal Also Finds The One Final Blank To Be The First Printing And The Three Blanks To Be A Second Printing. None Of This Is Definitive As Mixed States, Not Fitting Into Any Of Their Dual Classifications, Are Common. Bright And Clean, No Loss Of White Lettering, A Few Tiny Losses To Yellow Sky, Very Slight Aging To Spine, No Fraying, Hinges Solid. No Marks.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. BURNING DAYLIGHT. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1910.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo,(approx. 5 1/8" wide by 7 1/2" tall)blue cloth with pictorial design with darker blue, and light yellow, and titles in white.[1] - [viii] 1-361- p/ [363] advertisements, pp [363-365 ] blank, p. [366]; advertisements pp. [367-374]; blank leaf. Frontispiece and seven plates inserted. Signed signatures. Corresponds to the first printing of BAL 11918. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Printed article tipped in on front free endpaper: "When Jack London Tried Tie-Making". (source onknown to me). Spine titles and decoration rubbed; some wear at head and foot of spine. No dust jacket. One of the Alaska tales. Studio
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$585.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Viii], 361+ Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth Stamped In White, Darker Blue And Yellow. First Edition. One Of 27,108 Copies. "Set Up And Electrotyped. Published October,1910" On Copyright Page, Signatures Signed B To 2A, Spine Imprint "The Macmillan Company" In Letters About 2.5 Cm Tall, Three Final Blanks Before Free Blank Endpaper. Merle Johnson States Earliest Known Presentation Copies Have This Three Line Spine Imprint, Although Bal Notes A Copy In The Ny Public Library Inscribed By London On Oct. 15, 1910, With The One Line Imprint, And Bal Found No Copies With This Three Line Imprint. However, The Usually Definitive Sisson And Martens Bibliography Of Jack London First Editions Finds The Presence Of The Signature Marks And One Final Blank To Indicate The First Printing, And The Absence Of Signature Marks And Three Blank Leaves With Leaves [24] 2-3 Inserted, To Indicate A Second Printing, And Does Not Find The Spine Imprint To Be Definable As First Or Second State; This Copy With Signed Signatures And Three Blank Leaves Does Not Fit Easily Into These Descriptions. Bal Also Finds The One Final Blank To Be The First Printing And The Three Blanks To Be A Second Printing. None Of This Is Definitive, As Mixed States, Not Fitting Into Any Of This Dual Classifications, Are Common, And It Is Clear That The Three Line Spine Imprint Is Much Scarcer. Of More Relevance, All Other Jack London First Editions From Macmillan 1902-1910, Except The Thin "Scorn Of Women, 1906, Have The Three Line Imprint, And All Editions 1911 And Thereafter, Except The Thin "The Acorn Planter", 1916, Have The One Line Imprint. Bright And Clean, No Loss Of White Lettering, A Few Tiny Losses To Yellow Sky. Owner's Signature On Front Free Endpaper.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Burning Daylight. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1910.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (variant issue not noted in BAL - with "Published October, 1910" on copyright page but with three blank leaves at rear which - with unsigned collation - generally denotes a second printing - suggesting that this is a possible an intermediate state first edition; with three line publisher imprint at foot of spine binding, but one-line imprint on jacket). Octavo. Frontispiece and seven inserted plates by Morgan. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in yellow and white with a design of a man and his dog signed G.H. (stains affecting top margin of a few pages). Dust jacket (unclipped; spine darkened; restoration, particularly to spine ends and folds) 361 pages + 3 pages of publisher's advertisements. BAL 11918.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2975.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Macmillan, 1910. First Edition with spine imprint and 3 blank leaves. 8 Illustrations (plates) by W. Morgan. BAL 11918; Sisson & Martens, p. 47. 12mo, [8],361,[1]+[12}ad pp. Blue cloth lettered in white, with blue & yellow illustration. Spine well rubbed, covers less so but with some flaking to lettering. Overall About Very Good. Collectible as a nice first edition copy of one of London's Alaska tales, the uniqueness of this piece actually lies between the cover and the title page: a tipped in Jack London check, signed by London, payable to E. Winship, dated May 12 1910; an ink inscription beneath the check by Eliza London Shepherd - London's older stepsister, who did much to raise him and who served as business manager for the London Ranch from 1910 until her death in 1939 (inscription is dated September 18th, 1932, at the Jack London Ranch, and is to Mr. & Mrs. W.W. Kerrigan); a rather lengthy full page ALS (autograph letter signed) from Eliza to the same Kerrigans, dated September 19th, 1932 at Glen Ellen, California (at the Ranch); and Jack London's now-famous Wolf's Head bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Top provenance. L28
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.