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London, Jack. The Night-Born, and Stories. The Century Company., New York., 1913.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Description: 290 p. Green cloth over boards, Gold titles w/ owl totems in black, both sides, and spine. Color art frontispiece, artist name dulled. Short stories with The Night-Born: The Madness of John Harned; When the World was Young; The Benefit of the Doubt; Winged Blackmail; Bunches of Knuckles; War; Under the Deck Awnings; To Kill a Man; The Mexican. Good. No dust jacket. Spine end wear. Cover cup rings. Well-bound.
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
LONDON.JACK. THE NIGHT-BORN.. THE CENTURY CO., NEW YORK., 1913.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TIGHT CLEAN COPY.LIGHT SOIL TO TOP EDGES.COLOR FRONTISPIECE.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A collection of ten short stories, some with crime. Bumped and rubbed with drip marks on the spine and a damp stain to the rear board. Binding solid, price sticker and shadow on the front end paper.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Night-Born and Other Stories. D. Appleton-Century, 1913.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good condition first edition book. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear and a few marks on the boards. Pastedowns and endpages are a little dusty, otherwise internal contents are clear and crisp. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderate scuffs, soils and edge wear; some rub marks and superficial stains as well; library bookplate on front pastedown; a readable copy. An early Twentieth Century collection of short stories by Jack London. 290 pages.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Night-Born. The Century Co, 1913.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published Feb.1913. 290pp, small octavo hardcover in dark teal cloth, gilt title and black embossed decor to front. book edges worn yet boards clean, light lean to book yet binding tight, bookplate, text clean.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
LONDON, JACK.. THE NIGHT-BORN. Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1913.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover and spine lettered in black with red decorations. Color frontispiece. Spine just lightly sunned. 290pp. Quite a clean copy of this reprint edition. Provided in a FACSIMILE FIRST EDITION DUST JACKET. See Sisson/ Martens pp. 67-68 and BAL 11942. First edition was printed by The Century Company in 1913. A compilation of 10 short stories by London. Size: Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. The Night-Born.. The Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 290 pp. 8vo, original medium blue cloth stamped in gold and black. First edition. BAL 11942. A large old ownership signature fills nearly the entire pastedown; same signature repeated at rear; cloth lightly soiled with light rubbing at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. Bell & Cockburn, Toronto, 1913.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The uncommon first Canadian edition probably published simultaneously with the Century American edition. Short stories by London including the title story and nine others. Guarded colour frontis. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles and black vignettes. Original bookstore label on front pastedown, another bookstore stamp on title page. Mild wear to extremities, gilt bright on front board, a little dulled on spine. A solid, handsome copy. BAL 11942-2. 290 pp.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Jack London. The Night-Born. The Century Co., 1913.
Price: US$40.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Shelf 1115 Text clean; book tight; paper very lightly browned; blind stamp; extra blank page on rear; one page ad; tissue guard intact; minor spine slant; some light rubbing to edges and corners of covers; spine strip dulled; gilt on front cover bright;Not a book club (BC)copy. Not ex library, not a remainder, smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS.
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. The Century Co, New York, 1913.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, published date February 1913 on the copyright page. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and black totem decoration. Binding is nice and tight with soiling to spine and boards and bumping to spine ends. Colour frontispiece, contents in very good condition with some sporadic browning and foxing. 19.5x13.5cm. 290pp, advert and two blank endpapers at rear.
Seller: Windsor Rare Books, Windsor, BERKS, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Night Born. The Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The covers have overall rubbing, some light to moderate soiling, corners and spine ends bumped and worn a bit, some spots on the spine edges that looks like white paint. The gilt on cover and spine is primarily intact, I would say about 85%. The right foredge has some evidence of past dampstain that's done some very light wrinkling, does not appear inside at all. Previous owner name and city appears on the front pastedown near the top left. I found some occasional light soiling spots on some pages, like someone used dirty fingers here and there. No other markings in the book though. This book has 290 pages, then a full page ad, then 2 blank leaves. Tissue remains intact on frontispiece. Publication date is February, 1913. I believe this is second state.
Seller: Kingship Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first American edition, published by The Century Company in 1913. A collection of some of London's more somber shorter works including the title story, The Madness of John Harned, The Mexican, War, To Kill a Man, Winged Blackmail, etc. A very good copy, bound in publisher's slate blue cloth. Some wear to the edges and the spine ends and appreciable dulling to the spine. To the forward pastedown, there is a date - FEB 20 - and it looks as if someone had once affixed a piece of paper to cover the date.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first American edition, published by The Century Company in 1913. A collection of some of London's more somber shorter works including the title story, The Madness of John Harned, The Mexican, War, To Kill a Man, Winged Blackmail, etc. A very good copy, bound in publisher's slate blue cloth. Some wear to the edges and the spine ends and dulling to the spine. Light spots to rear and front boards. With label from ' New Fiction Circulating Library ' to forward pastedown and prior owners signature.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night Born. The Century Co., New York, NY, 1913.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good condition to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. This book matches the 3rd state listed in Sisson (page 127) with blue grey cloth binding, black totem poles and gilt lettering to the front cover and spine and two blank leaves at the rear of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The front pastedown page includes a previous owner's book plate (John Milton Stewart) , and there is an ink stamped previous owner's name on the front endpaper. The rear inner hinge of the book has begun to crack. "Early in "the unluckiest year of his life" (1913) , during which his dream home in Californias Sonoma Valley burnt down, Jack London, aged thirty-seven, published the short-story collection The Night-Born (Labor, 329). The ten tales in it range from negligible potboilers to such gems as the evocative sketch of a soldiers life "War", and the suspenseful fight story "The Mexican", set during the Mexican Revolution (c. 19101920) and embodying Londons "finest allegory of the revolutionary spirit" (Labor, Leitz, Shepard, xxix)." (the Literary Encyclopedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE NIGHT-BORN. New York. The Century Co. 1913, 1913.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Ed. HC. Dk blue cloth stamped in black & gold. 290pp. One back flyleaf; one back free end page. Owners insc. & (~1 sq.) label on ffep else G+ wi/top crnrs mod.-well frayed wi/a little loss at frnt crnr/head of spine; small/mod. stain in btm fore-crnr of frnt cv & a few frnt leaves. Bright/tight & square. Collection of short stories one of which (WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG) is noted by Bleiler as an obvious source for Tarzan.
Seller: BRIAN MCMILLAN, BOOKS, Traer, IA, U.S.A.
Jack London (1876-1916). The Night-Born and Other Stories. Century Co, New York, 1913.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [6]+290+[1] pages with color frontispiece protected with tissue guard. Small Octavo. bound in original publisher's grey blue cloth, decorated in black, lettered in gilt. [Sisson & Martin: 67; BAL 11942] First edition, first state with blank page at rear. The Night born a short story was first published in Everybody's Magazine, July, 1911. Also included in the collection of short stories previously published in magazine form is "The Madness of John Harned" (1909); "When the World Was Young" (1910); "The Benefit of the Doubt" (1910); "Winged Blackmail" (1910); "Bunches of Knuckles" (1910); "War" (1911); "Under the Deck Awnings" (1910); and "To Kill a Man" (1910). Condition: Soiling to covers, rubbing mainly to extremities, spine dulled, corners bumped, book plate on front paste down. Over all about a very good copy lacking dust jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Night-Born. The Century Co, 1913.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Spine is cracked. Cover is worn, especially along edges. Text block is tanned and foxed, but legibility is not affected. Back past down end paper is torn and has sticker from previous seller. Inside is tanned, but unmarked and readable.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. Century Co., New York, 1913.
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Description: 290p. illus Good condition, front cover water stained
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
JACK LONDON. THE NIGHT BORN. CENTURY CO, 1913.
Price: US$178.00 + shipping
Description: A rare first edition of Jack London's "The Night Born". Text is unmarked. Owners name on flyleaf. Front and back hinge separating. Cover is worn and torn. Pages intact in binding. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available.
Seller: Sunny Day Books, Mayer, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Good condition. Missing the back free endpaper. Has a Jack London bookplate. Previous owner noted "Jack London's own copy", but of course, this is unverifiable, and this bookplate was later reissued so it may have been later added by a Jack London fan. Anyway, it's an interesting copy.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night-Born. The Century Co., New York, 1913.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Blue/gray cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black. BAL, 11942. Inked name and date to front free endpaper, light rubbing to joints and spine tips, overall near fine in custom mylar cover. First edition, first state with single blank at end.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Night Born. The Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Night Born by Jack London. First edition in original blue cloth. Publisher: The Century Company, New York, 1913. First printing with the publication date on both the title-page and copyright page and Published, February, 1913 printed on the copyright page. Binding in near fine condition. Slight rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine. Book contents are clean. 290 pages plus ad. 5 ½ x 7 ¾ inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #18-121. Price: $250. Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [2], 290pp, [1pp ad]. Original teal green cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover with black illustrations. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear along gutter. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. With frontispiece protected by tissue guard. A nice, near fine example. (Sisson & Martens 68) (BAL 11942). 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.. The Night-Born.. Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913., 1913.
Price: US$373.95 + shipping
Description: First Canadian edition. 8vo., orig. blue/grey cloth dec. in black. Name on e/paper, touch of rubbing to the spine ends but in fact a near fine copy. Both BAL and Sissons not this is probably of simultaneous issue with the U.S. edition.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
London, Jack. The Night-Born. The Century Company, New York, 1913.
Price: US$405.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Iv], 291 Pp. + Ad At Rear, One Rear Blank. Blue Gray Cloth, Gilt Lettering, Black Designs On Spine And Cover. First Printing, One Of An Unknown But Small Printing. Very Good +, Light Rubbing To Upper And Lower Edges With Tiny Frays At Lower Corners, Gilt Bright, No Loss Of Gilt Lettering, A Few Tiny Partial Losses Of Black Design.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition, second state per BAL 11942. Blue Gray cover with bright gold lettering (Totem poles in black) extra blank page in rear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed card laid in.
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.