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LONDON, Jack. The Human Drift. Macmillan Co, 1917.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 184pp, small octavo hardcover in burnt orange cloth with gilt titles. some wear to book edges and rear, front cover and spine clean, binding mildly splitting at top end of gutter just after the ffep yet binding and block remain solid, owner name, text clean.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Human Drift. MacMillan Company, 1917.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First Edition. Ask to see further images if interested. Red cloth over boards with heavy general wear, soil. Edgewear, some dings, cloth wear. Liquid mark affecting top of text block edge, spine, the length of rear board, bottom edge of rear board (leaving some ripple along edge), bottom hinges and bottom of front board. Spine with heavy wear, staining, discoloration, soil. Titles are legible. Exterior hinges with cloth wear. Spine tips/joints with edge wear, soft creasing, fray, discoloration. Corners bumped, bowed. Staining to bottom of front pastedowns and front end paper at area of gutter. Hinge splitting a few inches from bottom. Liquid markings seen on pastedowns, endpapers and throughout book. Ask to see images if interested.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Human Drift. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth over boards, variant binding with no lettering on front cover and gilt lettering on spine, black and white plate frontispiece. Collection of essays by American writer Jack London. Very Good, modest shelf wear, wear to corners and spine ends, slight darkening to spine, bookplate at front pastedown.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Human Drift. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$202.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Viii], 184 Pp.+ Ads At Rear. One Of 3056 Copies Printed. 1917 Date On Copyright And Title Pages. Reddish Brown Cloth Stamped In Gilt. First Printing. Cloth Clean And Unfaded, Color Bright, Touches Of Rubbing At Corners, Loss Of Small Part Of Gilt In A Few Letters On Front Cover But Gilt Mostly Brilliant, Fraying Around Bottom Edge Of Spine (Recent, Unprovoked Feline Assault). .
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Human Drift. Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$209.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Written by the author of "Call of the Wild", corners bumped, former inside front flap of dustjacket pasted into front right inside board of book. In very nice condition. 184 pages plus 8 pages of London book ads in the rear. 3,056 copies printed (APG 1998 p.363) Facsimile signature on Picture of London/flyleaf facing title page.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Human Drift. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 184pp, [6pp ads]. Red cloth, title printed in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light sunning to spine, faint wear to edges, a near fine example. Previous ownership inscription on front pastedown endpaper. An ex-library copy, with library markings to title page and rear endpapers. (Sisson & Martens 92) (BAL 11972). 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 Human Drift. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$405.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Viii], 184 Pp.+ Ads At Rear. One Of 3056 Copies Printed. 1917 Date On Copyright And Title Pages. Reddish Brown Cloth Stamped In Gilt. First Printing. Near Fine: Cloth Clean And Unfaded, Color Bright, Rubbing Only At Corners, Loss Of Part Of Gilt In Part Of A Few Letters On Front Cover, Due To Very Faint Water Spots At Top. No Names Or Marks; No Fading To Spine Cloth.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Human Drift. Grosset & Dunlap / The MacMillan Company, 1917.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover - Good - No dust jacket if issued - Clean and tight with only slight wear to bottom of spine. - Red cloth over boards with black lettering. Published, February, 1917.
Seller: gigabooks, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Jack London (1876-1916). The Human Drift. MacMillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [i-viii]+1-108+109-110]+111-151+[152-154]+155-184+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2"). bound in original publisher's brick red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. This is a variant binding (BAL 11972) with front cover lettered in gilt rather in black as noted in BAL 11972. (Sisson & Martens, 92) First edition of one of the smaller publisher runs of 3056 copies. An eclectic mix of his short stories like "Small Boat Sailing," and essays such as "The Human Drift" and an introduction to Two Years Before The Mast. Condition: Light wear to points, slight stain to title else near fine lacking dust jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Human Drift. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. [x], 184, [2], [6 ads] pp. Publisher's reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with bright gilt, faint tidemark to upper corner of prelims, in a Good example of the rare dust jacket, unclipped and unsophisticated. Jacket chipped at edges and along spine, soiled and lightly dampstained, front panel creased, front and spine panels still attached at head but nearly separate. London's first posthumously-published work, consisting of non-fiction pieces, including "Four Horses and a Sailor," Jack's account of a trip in company with Charmian in a horse-drawn carriage from Sonoma County to Oregon. Rare in jacket, which reproduces the frontispiece photo. Only 3,056 copies printed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.