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Jack London. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 378 pages and 6 pages (advertisements of books by Jack London). With frontispiece. Internaly fresh. Pictorial yellow, blue and white boards, with gilt to spine Tiny wear to headcaps. Spine slightly faded. Otherwise in very condition +. Size: 20 cm
Seller: abibliodocs, Montréal, QC, Canada
Jack London. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With the date on the title page and 'Published September 1914' on the copyright page. In the red gilt embossed cloth with Sonoma Edition in a gilt hexagon on front cover. A near pristine copy, clean and unmarked. A thick archival Mylar jacket accompanies this copy. From the collection of legendary bookseller Roger Carlson of Bookman's Alley.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. BAL 11956. Original orange decorated cloth over boards, blue ink illustrations and white ink lettering at front cover, gilt lettering at front cover and spine, with frontispiece. Good, cover and spine faded, ink and gilt lettering at front cover and spine faded, wear to edges, pages pagetoned and lightly foxed, previous owner's signature at front free end paper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Mutiny of the Elsinore. Macmillan Co., New York, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Spine cocked, rubbed and bumped at head and heel; covers rubbed and dustsoiled, corners of boards bumped at rubbed, page edges tanned and dusty, previous owner name on front free endpaper, light soiling to endpapers, small chips at upper edge of rear pastedown. 378 pp., color frontis.
Seller: Maya Jones Books, Cerrillos, NM, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. Macmillan and Co, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Covers shelfworn, with the blue starting to scuff off. Name of owner stamped on front endpapers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. Macmillan and Co, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Covers shelfworn, with the blue starting to scuff off. Name of owner stamped on front endpapers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Orange cloth with ivory and gilt lettering and blue and grey pictorial front board stamping. 378pp, (8pp ads). Color frontispiece. Good plus. Super tight and internally near fine, but gilt spine lettering almost entirely rubbed off and, while ivory and gilt front board lettering remains strong, the blue pictorial waves that fill much of the front board are largely chipped off, though the large sailship rising in the distance remains sharp. A tight and nice first edition of this fact-inspired seafaring novel informed by London's 1912 journey around Cape Horn. Spine lettering nearly gone and front board pictorial element heavily chipped, but internally a quite decent and tight first.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The MacMillan Company, London, 1914.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 8vo, published in pictorial yellow , green and white boards, with gilt to spine, no jacket. Bumps, fraying and a crease to boards, image and spine rubbed, sound binding, marks to two pages, a stamp inside back, very good internal condition else.
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Mutiny Of The Elsinore. The MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 1914.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition with all points according to Sisson (page 77) The book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. There is some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. There is some beginning fraying as well. The lettering and decoration on the spine of the book has been mostly rubbed away. The foredge of the front cover of the book has several small spots of color loss and there is rubbing to the blue color on the front cover as well. The text pages are clean and bright. There is foxing to the endpapers. "The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. After death of the captain, the crew of a ship split between the two senior surviving mates. During the conflict, the narrator develops as a strong character, rather as in The Sea-Wolf. It also includes some strong right views which were part of London's complex world-view. The novel is partially based on London's voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912. " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 378 Pp + Catalog At Rear. First Printing, One Of 16, 684 Copies. Light Wear, No Fraying, Gilt Lettering On Spine And Front Cover Still Brilliant, White Title On Front Cover Complete, With Irregular Loss Af About 1/4 Of Fragile Blue Background On Spine And Small Losses On Front Cover. Owner's Name Stamp On Front And Rear Pastedowns And Signature On Front Free Endpaper; Rear Blank Endpaper Cut Down To A Stub Only.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 378 Pp + Catalog At Rear. First Printing, One Of 16,684 Copies. "With The Compliments Of The Macmillan Company" Punctured Through The Title Page. No Fraying, Gilt Lettering On Spine And Front Cover Still Strong, White Title On Front Cover Complete, With Loss Af About 1/3 Of Fragile Blue Background On Spine And Small Losses On Front Cover. Pencil Notes, Mainly Quotes From Text, On Blank Endpaper Before Catalog, And On Rear Endpapers, Including Pencil Inscriptions To Frank Koyama (1889-1965) By Mrs. S. L. Levy In Two Different Hands, And Some Notes In Japanese.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE. , 1914.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 8 pp undated ads. Original orange cloth decorated in blue and grey. First Edition. This tale, serialized as "Sea Gangsters," involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons' problems with the tropics (per the theories he had read in Woodruff's EFFECTS OF TROPICAL LIGHT ON WHITE MEN). Jack wrote THE ELSINORE soon after he and Charmian returned from his "Millergraph" trip to New York City; their five-month return was on the clipper ship "Dirigo," out of Baltimore around Cape Horn, in mid-1912. (His last acts on shore were to shave his head bald and to have a photograph taken of himself standing by Poe's grave.) Since there was no alcohol on board, Jack went through withdrawal from his dependence upon it, and proclaimed that he was not an alcoholic -- though Charmian knew that would last only until the pain in his kidneys and bowels would again become unbearable.[Sinclair] Jack, with major gastrointestinal problems of his own, watched the ship's captain slowly die of stomach cancer during the voyage. Charmian became pregnant again, but soon after they arrived back in Glen Ellen she miscarried -- confirming Jack's fear that he would have no son and heir for the ranch. And so began Jack's new "period of disgust." Though a substantial number of copies was printed, this is a surprisingly uncommon book, especially in nice condition (as the orange covers are prone to soil, and the blue pigment is prone to erosion). This is a very good copy, without much soil but with some of the eroded-blue, mainly at the edges of the spine. Sisson & Martens p. 78; Blanck 11956.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 378 Pp + Catalog At Rear. Blue Cloth Stamped In Blue, White And Gilt. First Printing, One Of 16, 684 Copies. Near Fine, Lightly Used, Slight Rubbing To Blue On Background Color Just At Top And Bottom Of Spine, Gilt And White Lettering Still As New, Cloth Exceptionally Clean, No Names Or Marks.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange heavily stamped in blue, white and gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine ends, else very sharp, in a Near Fine dust jacket with soiling and edge wear, with chipping along the top edge. Scarce in the original dust jacket. A novel based partially on the author's 1912 trip around Cape Horn on the Dirigo.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "Set Up and Electrotyped. Published September 1914" printed on the copyright page. An attractive dustjacket with light wear and repair. The book is bound in the publisher's original orange cloth with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing or marks. The book has a Jack London bookplate indicating the author's copy most likely. Overall, a lovely copy with the scarce dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.