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London, Jack. Michael Brother of Jerry. New York, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1917.

Price: US$17.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1917 reprint (with permission from MacMillan Co.) of this hardcover without the dust jacket from Grosett and Dunlap. The boards have light rubbing / soiling to the surface and edges. The slightly tanning contents appear clean with the binding secure. No remainder marks and not an ex-library, we ship daily.

Seller: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.

London, Jack. Michael Brother of Jerry. Macmillan Co., New York, 1917.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: Spine cocked, soiled and worn, particularly at at head and heel; covers rubbed, a bit soiled, and bumped and frayed at corners; page edges tanned and dusty, light soiling to endpapers, hinges cracked, dampstain at lower corners of front free endapaper and page corners through first half of text. 344 pp., color frontis.

Seller: Maya Jones Books, Cerrillos, NM, U.S.A.

London, Jack. JERRY OF THE ISLANDS. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1st U.S. Edition, ix + 337 pages + ads. Red cloth on boards, gilt lettering on spine & front, black decoration. Light edgewear, spine lightly sunned. Front free endpaper has been removed, previous owner's name written faintly at top of front pastedown. Interior clean & tight. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece. Story of Jerry, an Irish Terrier. A companion book to 'Michael, Brother of Jerry' by the same author. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada

Jack London. Michael Brother of Jerry. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1917.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG/no dust jacket. Red cloth hardcover book with gold and black lettering and designs. First edition. 1917. MacMillan co. Light soiling to half title page and moderate edgewear and light soiling. Very nice copy.

Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.

London, Jack. Michael Brother of Jerry. Macmiallan, 1917.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first American edition, published by macmillan and Company in 1917. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in gold and black. With color frontispiece. A very good copy with a touch of wear to the spinal extremities and the tips, and very light bumping to the corners.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

London, Jack (1876-1916). Jerry of the Islands. MacMillan Company, New York, 1917.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: ix+337+[6 ad] pages with color frontispiece. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover and black outline of dogs with London in black to cover. (Sisson page 94, BAL 11973) First edition, first state with 13024 published. Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 became a British protectorate. The hero of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a brother of dog named Michael, about whom London wrote another novel. In the preface, Jack London tells about the ship Minota on which he traveled and which wrecked in the Solomon Islands. Captain Kellar of Eugenie ship rescued Jack London after the shipwreck but later died by the hands of the cannibals. London mentions a letter that he received from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford wrote about a punitive expedition on the neighboring island. The second aim of the operation was searching for the remains of Jack London's friends. During the voyage on Minota, Jack London and his wife found a dog aboard the ship, an Irish terrier named Peggy. The couple attached to Peggy so much that London's wife stole the dog after the wreck of the ship. Condition: Slightly cocked, corners bumped, spine end rubbed, spine lightly sunned else a very good copy.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

Jack London. Michael Brother of Jerry. The MacMillan Company,, New York:, 1917.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Description: First printing Very good-, in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt and black text on the front board with a black silhouette of two dogs. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 5" with the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine is slightly worn as is the cloth at the tips of the boards. The end sheets show minor foxing and there is an older, four digit price (?) notation on the first free end page. A neat and clean copy of London's 46th book. Only 10,320 copies of the first edition were published. (Sisson, p. 96) 344 pages followed by 8 pages of ads.

Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

London, Jack. Michael, Brother of Jerry. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Rare ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with a blindstamp announcing just that to the title page. Missing the frontispiece illustration and the preliminary half title page. Perhaps both were torn out to render in unsaleable? Some foxing to the end papers, modest cover wear else a clean and solid example of an uncommon state. No jacket. ; 7.40 X 5.20 X 1.30 inches; 344 pages

Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

LONDON, Jack.. Michael Brother of Jerry.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: viii, 344 [10, ads] pp. Color frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's red cloth. First edition. BAL 11974. A bright copy with some light use at extremities.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

London, Jack. Michael Brother of Jerry. New York the MacMillan Company 1917, 1917.

Price: US$152.17 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st Edition. [i-x], 1-344, [+ title leaf, 8 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover; the front also has the authors name in black text and an image of dogs. The boards are somewhat bumped and worn at corners and ends of spine; they are also rubbed with a small stain on back and some mild bubbling. Inscription from the previous owner (1917) on front free endpaper. Colour frontis. Clean tight text block with only a couple of mild stains. Long outer edge of text block roughly trimmed. A lovely copy. very good Sissons & Martens; 96. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 ?November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. This book was published post-humously.

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada

London, Jack. Michael Brother of Jerry. New York the MacMillan Company 1917, 1917.

Price: US$152.17 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st Edition. [i-x], 1-344, [+ title leaf, 8 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover; the front also has the authors name in black text and an image of dogs. The boards are somewhat bumped at corners and ends of spine, with wear to these places and edges; they are also rubbed with a small white stain on back and some mild bubbling. Previous owners name on front pastedown and "property of the Ranchmen's Club, Jul 1 1928" stamp on front free endpaper. There is a subtle rippling to the first couple of pages. Colour frontis. Clean tight text block. Long outer edge of text block roughly trimmed. A lovely copy. very good Sissons & Martens; 96. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 ?November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. This book was published post-humously.

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada

London, Jack. MICHAEL BROTHER OF JERRY. , 1917.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 10 pp undated ads. Original red-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book, published about six months after JERRY OF THE ISLANDS. Though both books were written by Jack in Honolulu as cash-raising hackwork, MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRY was a better book. It argued that far worse than the Social Pit for men were the cages for trained dogs and circus animals. All the foul tricks of the trade were exposed. So effective was his indignation that hundreds of London clubs sprang up on the publication of the book, dedicated to ending the trade in performing animals. [Sinclair] By the time Jack wrote this book in late 1915 (on his and Charmian's second trip to Hawaii during 1915-1916), Jack was swilling so much fruit juice, as it helped flush out the toxins his kidneys couldn't handle, that he was becoming quite fat. He rarely stirred out of his kimono and his hammock. He felt too ill to walk more than a block, and he preferred to take the chauffeur and the car for the shortest excursion. This is a near-fine copy (very slightly rubbed at the extremities), but the title page bears a blind-stamp, and the paste-down an ink-stamp, of an early Maine bookseller. Sisson & Martens p. 96; Blanck 11974.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.

London, Jack. Michael Brother of Jerry.. The Macmillan Company, 1917.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very attractively bound in finely woven red cloth with a silhouette drawing of the canines Michael and Jerry at the top of the front panel. Stamped brightly in gilt and black lettering on the front boards and in very bright gilt on the spine. With the merest touch of rubbing to the extremities.Very clean and tight throughout, with the exception of some foxing to the rear endpapers and past-down, courtesy of the binder's glue. Printed on creamy white paper and with 8 pages of ads for Macmillan books at the back. A very collectible copy. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 – 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1917 and with "Published November, 1917" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

John "Jack" Griffith London (1876-1916). Michael, Brother of Jerry. MacMillan Company, New York, 1917.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 344+[8 ad] pages with colored frontispiece. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and coer and black pictorial to front cover in original pictorial jacket. Four page promotional ad from MacMillan with the promotion of Michael. (BAL 11974) First edition with 10,320 copies printied. Michael, Brother of Jerry is a novel by Jack London released in 1917. This novel is loosely connected to his previous novel Jerry of the Islands, also released in 1917. Each book tells the story of one of two dog siblings. Michael, an Irish terrier, was born and raised in the Solomon Islands. The dog now works as a slave hunter aboard a schooner on a mission to recruit native islanders for work. One day the captain accidentally leaves Michael on a beach and sails away. Michael was then abducted by Dag Daughtry, a steward on another ship, who initially planned to sell the dog for money. However, later he got attached to Michael and takes the dog to a trip around the world. A major theme in the book is how various animals are taught to perform for the public. In his Foreword, Jack London says that this was a major reason for writing the book. Condition: Touch of rubbing to points. Jacket with some soiling, some professional repair to jacket else very good to fine in a better than very good jacket.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.