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London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. Mills & Boon, 1915.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: boards are worn, chipped and bumped. foxing, staining and marks. loose binding and visible netting. book is a bit damp marked. small sticker. a rather worn reading copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore.. Mills & Boon., London, 1915.
Price: US$19.93 + shipping
Description: 396pp + ads. Or green cloth. Spine slightly faded and worn at head and foot of spine. Previous owners name on ffep, some toning to endpapers and prelims. Great tale of maritime adventure by the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. Mills & Boon, London, 1915.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Adventure. 396 pages, with bright colour frontispiece. 32-page catalogue at rear listing Mills & Boon's Spring Novels for 1915 and previously published titles. This title heads the list of Spring Novels for 1915, although it is 3rd in the list of Jack London's books in the front of the book. BOOK: Binding is stretched to reveal webbing at FEP hinge, but is still solid; mild soiling to green boards; some loss of gilt to the spine titles; softening to spine ends; two corner bumps, all corners inflected; offset to endpapers; 'Colonial Library' stamp under publisher's name on title-page; ink price on RFEP; page browning. Scan on request.
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
London, Jack. The Jacket (The Star Rover). Mills & Boon, Limited, London, 1915.
Price: US$44.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Good copy in the original green cloth, marked and with note to ffep. Light foxing, but complete with frontispiece and adverts to rear.
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Jack London. The Jacket. Mills & Boon, 1915.
Price: US$44.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red Boards with black titles. Spine has some fade. Clean pages and firm binding. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging
Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Jack London. The Scarlet Plague.. Mills & Boon, 1915.
Price: US$47.18 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1915. No Edition Remarks. 153 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with ex libris plate to front pastedown. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and major tanning to text block edges. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Fair foxing throughout. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier rubbing to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. Mills & Boon, London, 1915.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Mills & Boon, 1915. One of London's lesser-known adventure tales, somewhat uncommon in this First English Edition, published a year after the American. This is a Very Good copy. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean and fresh text. 396 pages with 32 pages (!) of publisher's adverts in the rear. Previous-owner name, dated 1915 (in Latin) on the FFEP. No dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Jacket (The Star Rover). Mills & Boon LTD, 1915.
Price: US$63.60 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1915. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Shelf wear to cloth-covered boards, and some wear and discolouration to the spine. Ex Libris to the back of the front board. Pages are generally browned. Published: Mills and Gibson, 1915.
Seller: Roy Turner Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1915 Hardcover NO Dust JAcket. Early Edition. NO Illustrated. Good minus condition, with heavy tanned edge paper. Pencil name to first blank page, bubles to the back cover as shown in pictures. U5A31.
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Jacket (The Star Rover). Mills & Boon, London, 1915.
Price: US$89.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers have light rubbing. Owners names. 333 pages + 2 adverts and publisher's catalogue.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Jack London. The Jacket (The Star Rover). Mills & Boon, London, 1915.
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, Mills & Boon, 1915. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A near fine copy. No jacket. A trippy novel wherein a torture device, the titular jacket, when tightened on our protagonist induces a trance wherein he visits the cosmos. A bit of toning to the spine and a little bumping. A nice copy overall. 32pp ads. [9611, Hyraxia Books].
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
Price: US$209.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated but c1915. Publishers original blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, gilt dulled. Binding tight with slight pushing and rubbing to spine ends. Content clean and bright with no markings or foxing. Jacket not clipped (priced on front panel) with some loss to head of spine, chipping to foot and bottom edge, small splits to folds, spine sunned and generally discoloured. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. 153 pp + 32 page publishers catalogue at rear. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
Seller: Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom
LONDON, Jack ;. THE JACKET. The Star Rover. Mills & Boon, London, 1915, 1915.
Price: US$252.49 + shipping
Description: First Edition preceding the USA Edition, 8vo. A coloured frontispiece,pp.333 + 3p.advertisements.Original green cloth with gilt titling.some pale foxing to the endpapers as usual due to poor quality paper.A little rubbed at head of spine [see images].
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
London, Jack. THE JACKET. Mills & Boon, 1915.
Price: US$272.60 + shipping
Description: THE JACKET, Mills & Boon, 1915, first edition,some wear to the lower corner tips, some scattered silverfish to the covers (but not the spine), some foxing to the title page and the next 3 leaves, else a tight vg copy. Published later in the U.S. as STAR ROVER.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Jacket (The Star Rover). Mills & Boon, London, 1915.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A few spots of foxing toward the front, but overall an attractive copy.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE JACKET (The Star Rover).. Mills & Boon (1915), London, 1915.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Contemporary binding by (or for) W. H. Smith in blue linen-grain cloth with title and WHS monogram stamped in black; 333 pp. + 2 page advertisement and 32-page catalog; color frontispiece. Short tear at top of front free endpaper, else fine True first edition of this title, with 1915 date on copyright page and 34 pages of advertisements at rear. UK edition precedes the US edition by nearly 3 months. In his "Call of the Atlantic: Jack London's Publishing Oxyssey Overseas, 1902-1916" (Oxford Univerity Press, 2016) author Joseph McAleer notes that "Most first edition sales in England were not directly to the public but to large circulating libraries like Mudies and W. H. Smith. (p. 4). Later noting that W. H. Smith ranked London as ". . . one of its top-selling authors." (p. 156). It is likely that W. H. Smith replaced the shoddy Mills & Boon binding a more durable and attractive one of their own. This copy apparently never circulated. BAL 11962; Sisson & Martens p. 82.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE JACKET (THE STAR ROVER) .. Mills & Boon, London, 1915.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-333 [334: printer's imprint] [335-336: ads] 1-[32]: ads [note: the 32 pages of ads are signatures 22 and 23 and are not an inserted catalogue], inserted color frontispiece, original green cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition, first printing with "Published 1915" on copyright page. The British edition preceded the U.S. edition. The British edition was deposited in the British Library 4 August 1915 and was listed as "ready" in Athenaeum 7 August 1915. The U.S. edition, titled THE STAR ROVER, was published by Macmillan in October and a copy was received by the Boston Athenaeum 14 October 1915. The story of a university professor who murders a colleague and is put into solitary confinement at San Quentin, where he learns, via self-hypnosis, to explore his previous incarnations. "Possibly the most curious of London's novels. . Some of the phantasmagoric episodes have considerable power. The book reveals an unexpected side of Jack London. Not only was he the victim of poverty in his youth, as his concern for social justice might suggest, he was the illegitimate son of a spiritualist and an astrologer." - T. Collins in Smith (ed), Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers (1981), p. 343. "The book could be placed in the same sub-genre as Arnold's PHRA THE PHOENICIAN, Armour's SO FAST HE RAN, Mason's THE THREE GENTLEMEN and others. Historical fiction almost always means a novel set in a single continuous period. The device of following a soul's reincarnations through different periods affords the author a new dimension of character development. It also lets the writer concatenate short historical fictions, employing more variety of background while maintaining the genre's usual sense of 'sweep' -- not with a horizontal exploration through space but a vertical exploration through time, shifting the focus from the society to the individual." - Robert Eldridge. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-110 and (1981) 1-119. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-223. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1031. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 518. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 142. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 674. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2159-62. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 126. Reginald 09153. BAL 11962. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1544. Slight spine lean, a bright, nearly fine copy. An attractive, much better than average copy of a book rarely found in nice condition. (#165369)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE JACKET (THE STAR ROVER). Mills & Boon, Limited [1915], London, 1915.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-333 [334: printer's imprint] [335-336: ads] 1-[32]: ads [note: the 32 pages of ads are signatures 22 and 23 and are not an inserted catalogue], inserted color frontispiece, original green cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge rough-trimmed. The British edition preceded the U.S. edition. The British edition was deposited in the British Library 4 August 1915 and was listed as "ready" in Athenaeum 7 August 1915. The U.S. edition, titled THE STAR ROVER, was published by Macmillan in October and a copy was received by the Boston Athenaeum 14 October 1915. The protagonist is tortured in prisoner and develops the ability to go into a trance like state and travel through an astral plane exploring past lives. "Possibly the most curious of London's novels. . Some of the phantasmagoric episodes have considerable power. The book reveals an unexpected side of Jack London. Not only was he the victim of poverty in his youth, as his concern for social justice might suggest, he was the illegitimate son of a spiritualist and an astrologer." - T. Collins in Smith (ed), Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers (1981), p. 343. Loosely based on the experiences of a San Quentin prisoner London came to befriend. Filmed as a silent picture in 1920. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-110 and (1981) 1-119. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-223. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1031. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 518. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 142. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 674. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2159-62. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 126. Reginald 09153. BAL 11962. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1544. Inked name to front free end paper, newspaper clipping affixed to copyright page, spine slightly color faded an attractive nearly fine copy. (22025) First edition, first printing with "Published 1915" on copyright page.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.