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Jack London. The Cruise of the Snark. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sixteenth printing 1961. Very light touch of wear to the binding. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket shows light edge wear, no sun fading. The DJ in an archival protector.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Adventure. Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 405 pages. First edition, first printing. Only 14,600 copies printed. Published March 1911 on the copyright page. His account of Charmian's and his ill-fated cruise around the world in their boat named Snark. Very good book with the front cover bright and clear and the spine lettering is complete with very slight rubbing. No dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Cruise of the Snark. MacMillan Company, 1911.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition "Published June, 1911) printed on copyright page. Unmarked but for markings on dedication page and title page. Contains former library pocket and due date sheet on front endpaper and flyleaf. Stamp on back flyleaf and on title page. Foxing on edges. Yellowed pages from age and mild incense has absorbed into pages from age. No jacket. Cover has wear along corners and spine.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
London, Jack. ADVENTURE. Macmillan Company, The, New York, 1911.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Bound in original pictorial blue cloth. 405 pages. First edition, first printing (March, 1911) limited to 14,600 copies. BAL 11928. Very light wear to spine ends. Evidence of the (very professional) removal of a bookplate on the front pastedown. Else a tight, bright, and unmarred copy of this lovely book. His account of Charmian's and his ill-fated cruise around the world in their boat named Snark. Bound in original pictorial blue cloth
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK.. The Macmillan Co: NY, 1911.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: Color frontis, photos, 8 x 5.25, blue cloth with paper illustr on cover, 340 pp + ads, cover heavily (and I mean heavily) worn, soiled and spotted, spine dull and creased, inner hinges breaking, ex-lib with markings in rear only, pp toned, worn and finger soiled, a very loose copy of the FIRST ED ("June 1911", illustr on p 270 tipped in). SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, 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. THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK. New York:The Macmillan Company, 1911.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:The Macmillan Company. 1911. xiv+340pp+4pp ads. 1st edition. Illustrated. Hardcover. Color frontispiece inserted. Includes one plate not on list of illustrations, between 270-271. Blue boards lightly soiled, rubbed and shelf-worn. Paste-down on front cover is shelf-worn with a chip. Gilt on boards dulled. Teg. Internally, no previous owners marks or signatures found, Paper is slightly age-toned but otherwise a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight, but slightly cocked and hinges intact. BAL11929.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$379.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1911, xiii, 340pp, plus 6pp of publisher's advertisements, profusely illustrated including the extra plate between pages 270 - 271 not noted in the list of illustrations, top edge gilt, light soiling, extremities lightly worn, a few small water(?) stains on the front cover. BAL 11929.
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Cruise of the Snark. The Macmillan Company, 1911.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Green Decorative Cloth With Pictorial of The Snark First Edition June, 1911 Ink Large Inscription on Front Paste Down on a Boat Trip August 18, 1911 by the Owner of the Book. Excellent Fresh Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Includes 1910 sepia photo of Jack & Charmian London plus author inscription.First edition, first printing. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. xiv,[1-]-340pp.(5pp. with 4pp. ads). On front inside cover board is taped, a faded 3-1/8 x 5-1/2 inch circa 1910, sepia photo of Jack London in suit and Charmian London at the at the Growall home in Menlo Park, dressed for the wedding of Edward Biron Payne and Ninetta Eames. Location and date from similar photo located at Huntington Digital Library. [2nd wife Charmian Kittredge (1871-1955). Handwritten under photo "A fine likeness of both as they looked while at the Ranch"Front end paper inscribed and signed by Jack London "Dear Hussey Brothers Point Reyes (on the northern California coast not far from London's Glen Ellen): In memory of hospitality & happy hours enjoyed at your hands. Jack London, Glen Ellen, Calif. Sept. 12, 1911Old newspaper article from May 20, 1978 on Jack London inserted inside book.Worn blue-green ribbed cloth with bright gilt lettering with spine ends and corners worn. Frontispiece paste-down of a water colour painting of the Snark in harbor which repeats in the color Scuffed and chipped color illustration on the front cover. Otherwise, overall condition is good. 212/213 foxing on pages from newspaper inserted between pages. Illustrated with 120 half-tone B&W photographs. Includes one plate of Charmian not on list of illustrations, present between 270-271. No dust jacket. 4,265 copies of this first edition book were printed. BAL 11929 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.Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.Provenance: Jack London probably inscribed this book to The Hussey Brothers who were ranchers on the Point Reyes Peninsula and also operated the Point Reyes Lighthouse. Hussey and other families remained on the ranches for decades and realized profits from their business. About 1877 brothers Charles, George, John and Fred Hussey took over the A Ranch lease. Fredrick Hussey (children Grace & Charles Hussey), George Hussey and Charles Hussey The Husseys moved to B Ranch in 1897. In 1899, Frederick Hussey and his brothers George and Charles, who had previously occupied A Ranch, leased B Ranch. The Hussey brothers, evidently led by Fred, operated B Ranch for almost 20 years from around 1899 to 1919. The Hussey brothers were involved in many activities at the Point. Tourists to the lighthouse were common and often asked for lodging with no notice. Fred Hussey's granddaughter Estelle Hunt Soderberg grew up at B Ranch and provided much of the history of the Hussey family. Quoted from RANCHING ON THE POINT REYES PENINSULA 1993-94 by D.S. (Dewey) Livingston, Historian, Point Reyes National Seashore.
Seller: Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
London, Jack. The Cruise of the Snark. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$1575.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1/4265 Copies. Frontispiece (In Color), Xiv;340, 9341,342); Advertisements 343-346. With Extra Stub Showing Between Copyright Page And Dedication Page, And Unusual Thus; Title Page Tipped In, As In All Known Copies. Extra Platen Inserted Between 270 And 271, But Not Included In List Of Illustrations; No Copies Without This Extra Plate Were Known To Sissons And Martens, And It May Be That All Copies Were Issued With The Inserted Plate, Just As All 4265 Copies Were Issued With The Tipped-In Title Page. This Copy With The Bookplate Of James Wayne Norris, Grandson Of James Pattie, And Himself A Noted Collector Of California And Far West Literature, Whose Library Was The Subject Of A Catalog Issued In 500 Copies By The Holmes Book Company In 1948 And Then Published By Grabhorne Press. With Small January 8, 1932 News Clipping From The S. F. Chronicle Announcing The Discovery Of The Wreck Of The Snark In The New Hebrides, Laid In Loosely, With A Little Browning On Endpaper As A Result. A Spectacularly Near Fine, Bright Copy, Almost As New, Gilt Absolutely Brilliant, Just A Few Tiny Rubs, And Scarce Thus.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Cruise of the Snark. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). A very good copy with some shelf wear and a bit of spine lean. Front hinge cracking at the bottom inch. With the wolf's head Jack London bookplate from Dawson's Books mounted to the front pastedown and below that, a clipped signature from a Jack London letter. With a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This copy includes a price-clipped, mostly-complete dust jacket, held together with Japanese tissue at all the folds. The rear panel has two open tears. Nevertheless, scarce in any jacket and nicely augmented with a signature and a bookplate.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.