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London, Jack. South Sea Tales. International Fiction Library, 1911.
Price: US$4.75 + shipping
Description: Pages tanned. Small circular rubber stamp mark on end pages. Small hole in middle of front end page. Covers scuffed. Contents are clean and tight.
Seller: GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC, Deforest, WI, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. Review of Reviews. New York 1911, 1911.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Description: HB 12mo G+/-- 327 pages. Part of Works of Jack London series. Light brown cloth boards with paper backstrip label.
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. SOUTH SEA TALES. regent press, 1911.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: very good spine darkening
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Jack London. South Sea Tales. Regent Press, New York, 1911.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early reprint of a London classic. Burgundy cloth with orange cover decoration. Some wear at corners and spine ends, binding a bit loose, unmarked.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. South Sea Tales. Seven Seas Edition.. P. F. Collier & Son., 1911.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: South Sea Tales. Seven Seas Edition. London, Jack. Published by P. F. Collier & Son. 1911. 327p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib --13.00
Seller: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. SOUTH SEA TALES .. review of reviews co, 1911.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: very good brown binding,
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. SOUTH SEA TALES .. international fiction library, 1911.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: very good + slightly faded spine, blue binding
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
London jack. south sea tales the works of jack london. The Review of Reviews Company, 1911.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Beige cloth
Seller: Muse Book Shop, DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. SOUTH SEA TALES. The Review of Reviews Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: 327 South Sea Tales by Jack London
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
Jack London. South Sea Tales. The MacMillan Company, 1911.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Red cloth cover has minor crushing to the top and bottom of the spine. Very lightly bumped tips to the boards and minor shelf wear to the bottom. Pages show signs of discoloration due to age, are clean, unmarked, and firmly bound. This book is it fine to very fine condition.
Seller: TNT ENTERPRIZES, Libertyville, IL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales (Second Printing). The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 327 Pp. + Ads At Rear; Frontispiece (In Color). Stated Second Printing, November 1911, One Month After The First Printing. Blue Cloth Stamped In White, Green And Dark Blue. Considerable Wear, Fraying At Corners, Lettering On Spine Worn Away, Some Losses To Lettering And Design On Front Cover. Title Page Partly Detached, With Small Chip At Upper Tip And Holmes Book Co. Blindstamp On Title/Copyright Page.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Works of Jack London; South Sea Tales. Macmillan, 1911.
Price: US$21.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The binding is sound with no DJ as published.-Other than previous owners information on the end page, this is an unmarked copy. Green cloth boards and spine with gilt and black stamped title on spine. Gilt textblock top. Frontis picture.This book is a collection of eight short stories set in different countries of the Pacific region in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were inspired by London's travels and many of them describe actual events witnessed by the author. In the days of tall ships and distant voyages, life in the South Seas is not a pleasant one. Hard-working natives need to deal with those who invade their lands: abusive blackbirders and born-to-swindle traders. It's easy to think that the locals are victims and foreigners oppressors. This is indeed the case. But when brutalized Islanders try to kill their masters and steal their goods, it's the other way round. Suddenly they become perpetrators and white people victims. Such is the reality of the South Pacific; nothing and no one is plainly black or white. A presentable copy.
Seller: Mad Hatter Bookstore, Westbank, BC, Canada
London, Jack (1876-1916).. SOUTH SEA TALES.. McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, New York: (1911)., 1911.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 327 p. + Frontis. Old paper stain on first leaves. Small 8vo. 19 cm. Original green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Jack London's triangular monogram set within a circle, blind-stamped on the upper board. Unusual Photo portrait ownership of Robert C. Bair, (York, PA) 1928. Unusual Photo portrait ownership bookplate of Robert C. Bair, (York, PA) 1928. Bair was involved in politics and served as the Director of Historical Society of York County. Spine title indicates that this is from 'The Works of Jack London' but the text is almost identical to the earliest editions . Excellent condition. Great for reading or as a gift. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W57 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. Regent Press, New York, 1911.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reprint edition, reprinted from the Macmillan 2nd printing. Moderate to heavy wear to the extremities. The cloth at the front joint is torn, with some repair. In a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. SOUTH SEA TALES. International Fiction Library, Cleveland, 1911.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 327 pages. Spotting on front and rear covers. Dust jacket is lightly chipped at top and bottom of spine; small chip, 1" x 1/8", on front panel at top foreedge. Good in dust jacket. (161)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. South Sea Tales.. International Fiction Library [1911], Cleveland and New York, 1911.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No printing statement. Last copyright shown is 1911, The Macmillan Company. A Fine copy in blue cloth, lower points scuffed, in a Very Good illustrated dustwrapper, all four corners clipped, with moderate edgewear and tiny loss to spine-ends, upper points. Sports a color illustration of a Pacific Islander in full head-dress and nose-bone with spear. 327pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. International Fiction Library existed 1929-1935. Q15246
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London. South Sea Tales. Collier, 1911.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. First Thus. Seven Sea Edition. Near Fine. Very light overall wear (minor stain at bottom page edge and small dimple at top of spine, light scuff at back panel). Square and tight. Unread. See image.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. SOUTH SEA TALES. International Fiction Library, 1911.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Blue cloth cover is heavily gnawed along fore edge of front and back cover but clean and overall in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good. Dust jacket is worn, soiled, and toned and also gnawed. DJ corners clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. )
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Jack London. South Sea Tales. International Fiction Library ,Cleveland, 1911.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vintage copy. Dust Jacket: No dj. Published 1911. Inscriprion on title page, mug stain back board, back board slightly loose, some light foxing, edges tanned clean and in good condition.
Seller: Stevens Vintage Books, Saint Lambert, QC, Canada
Jack London. SOUTH SEA TALES. International Fiction Library, Cleveland, 1911.
Price: US$84.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a boards. 1/4 inch open tear at spine crown. Bumping at spine heel. Lightly toned throughout.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. INTERNATIONAL FICTION LIBRAR, NEW YORK, 1911.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Soiled, torn and worn jacket with pictorial on it. Previous owners' hand writing on front paste down page. Brown stain from the jacket on paste down and first& last free end pages. Foxing on the first 5 pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1911 EDITION: 327
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. The Regent Press, New York, 1911.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Regent Press. New York. 1911. 327 pages. Macmillan printed the first edition of this title; Regent Press then used their plates from the second printing. Book is tight, clean and nice. Binding and hinges are strong. Pages lay tight. Minmal soiling to rear panel. Sunning to purple hue on spine; titles remain bright. A touch of foxing to endpapers. A nice early copy. VG
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1911.
Price: US$153.87 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: damp affected cover some of the dye has been lost. Pale blue
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Jack London. South Sea Tales. Macmillan and Co, 1911.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Covers worn.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Cruise of the Snark. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Solidly bound in vertically ribbed blue-green cloth with bright gilt lettering and a paste-down water color painting of the Snark in harbor. Stamped in gilt lettering on the spine. The paste-down is rubbed and lightly worn along the edges and at the center. Top edges gilded. Lightly edge-rubbed with fraying to the extremities; front bottom corner heavily bumped. The hinges have been reglued. With a splendid colored frontispiece of the Snark and numerous black and white photographs throughout. The full-page photograph of "Charmian Goes to Market" between pp. 270 and 271 is present. A clean, serviceable copy. Only 4,265 copies of the first edition were printed. The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years. The Snark was named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark. She had two masts and was 43 feet long at the waterline, and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on her construction. She was primarily sail power; however, she also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. She carried one lifeboat. After many delays, Jack and Charmian London and a small crew sailed out of San Francisco Bay on April 23, 1907, bound for the South Pacific. (Wikipedia) 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 1911 and with "Published June, 1911" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. The Macmillan Company, 1911.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition, First Printing. (1st Edition, 1st Printing). Octavo. Blue boards with worn decoration including beach, ocean and palm trees along with white text. Full colour frontispiece.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
London, Jack. South Sea Tales. Macmillan, 1911.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Blue pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear; spine faded with some loss to lettering. Pages 321-327 rough cut, with some chipping to outer edges, particularly to page 327; there is, however, no text loss. A very good copy of a fairly scarce book.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.