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Jack London. John Barleycorn Or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon Limited, 1914.
Price: US$9.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket over the blue boards. Lightly tanned pages. Good reading copy.
Seller: SGOIS, Bungay, United Kingdom
Jack London. John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon Ltd, 1914.
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1914. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
London, Jack. JOHN BARLEYCORN OR ALCOHOLIC MEMOIRS. Mills and Boon, 1914.
Price: US$10.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1914?? Blue cloth, no illustrations. 306pp One of London's best books, about his struggle with alcoholism. Exterior dulled; piece missing from publisher's advet at end of book - no loss to text.
Seller: Left On The Shelf (PBFA), Kendal, United Kingdom
London, Jack. John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon, London, 1914.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 306pp.+4pp publisher's ads. 6.8 inches. Tiny book, pocketsize. Blue cloth, navyblue lettering. Worn with ringmarks on front. Decorative epp, but hinges starting, and with the free epp excised. Pages browned and very fragile. No marks internally else. No date or edition, copyright date of 1914 given, possibly the UK First Edition. (US First publ. 1913). Scarce early copy of autobiography by famous writer (Call of the Wild), of boys' and Arctic adventure novels. (Biography, Memoir, Literature, Arctic, Canada) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Transformer, Glasgow, United Kingdom
London, Jack. John Barleycorn. Mills & Boon Limited, 1914.
Price: US$24.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small octovo in dark green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, clean unfoxed pages, faint shelfwear to covers, else VG+, enclosed in clear and heavy mylar wrap. Nice copy! Fast shipping in cardboard. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Mossback Books, hartland, MI, U.S.A.
LONDON, JACK. John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon Ltd, London, 1914.
Price: US$37.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered green cloth. Two illustrations. Ink inscription dated July 29th, 1914 on the eve of the Great War. This is a very sharp copy with just a few minor scuffs on it. Memoirs from the valley of the Moon.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
London, Jack. John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon, 1914.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition. Clean, tight and sound copy. A few marks to margins. Text block slightly browned as usual. Ownership inscription. Publisher's dark green cloth gilt. [4] + 306 pages + 10 page Mills & Boon catalogue at rear, port. frontis. and one further ( colour ) plate at pp95. Binding lightly rubbed, cloth with blotchy fading on spine, corners bumped, cloth slightly creased on spine. Size approx. 7.5" by 5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27299.
Seller: Steve Liddle, ABA PBFA ILAB, Bristol, United Kingdom
London, Jack. John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon, London, United Kingdom, 1914.
Price: US$60.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) Octavo, frontis. tissue guard present. Pp. 306. Mills & Boon catalogue to rear, colour plate at P. 95. Rubbing to boards, light offsetting, mild spotting throughout, mostly clean and tightly bound, neat name to front end page.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
London, Jack. John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs. Mills & Boon, London, 1914.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. First British edition. A very good copy in dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. No ownership inscription. Some fairly light edge foxing. 306 pages + 2pp publisher's adverts and 8pp publisher's catalogue. Frontispiece and one colour plate. "I am writing of the effects of alcohol on the normal, average man."
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
LONDON, Jack:. John Barleycorn;. Mills & Boon;, 1914.
Price: US$72.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1 photo plt & 1 col. plt; 306pp, 195 x 120mm; grn clth (rear board a little marked); (with PICTURE) 0.0
Seller: BOOKS & THINGS, STROUD, United Kingdom
London, Jack. John Barleycorn. Mills & Boon, London, 1914.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edges foxed. A very good, tight copy.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Jack London. John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs ( with rare Dust jacket). Mills & Boon, 1914.
Price: US$138.75 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: very nice book and extremely rare dust jack DJ depicts men raising there glasses to a young boy/man Price intact on bottom of dj spine
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. JOHN BARLEYCORN. Mills & Boon, 1914.
Price: US$226.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: JOHN BARLEYCORN, Mills & Boon, 1914, first English edition, foxing to the page edges and the first several leaves, else a tight vg+ to near fine copy in the first state binding of dark green cloth and gold-gilt lettering. Illustrated.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$248.60 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 306, [2], 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 col. ill., 1 port. ; 20 cm. Notes: Publisher's advertisements: p. [307]-[308], 1-8 at end. Previous owner inscription. Subject: London, Jack (1876-1916) - Biography - Alcohol use - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - United States. Authors - Alcoholics - American - 20th century - Biography. Alcoholism. Alcohol abuse. Biography. Genre: Autobiography, Illustrated. Series: Mills & Boon's shilling cloth library. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
London, Jack. John Barleycorn. Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: John Barleycorn by Jack London. First British edition in original dark blue/green cloth. Publisher: Mills & Boon, London, (1914). Binding is in fine condition. Book contents clean throughout. Occasional light foxing. 306 pages. Overall a nice copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #13-150. Price: $250. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 306, [2], 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 col. ill., 1 port. ; 20 cm. Notes: Publisher's advertisements: p. [307]-[308], 1-8 at end. Previous owner inscription. Subject: London, Jack (1876-1916) - Biography - Alcohol use - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - United States. Authors - Alcoholics - American - 20th century - Biography. Alcoholism. Alcohol abuse. Biography. Genre: Autobiography, Illustrated. Series: Mills & Boon's shilling cloth library. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.