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Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 24 inserted photographic plates depicting London's poor. Maroon grained cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, titled in gilt on the spine and upper board. Contemporary presentation inscription ['George Harvey from ? Storrs, Jan 1st 1904 on half-title']. Occasional slight wear, but a very good bright copy. Jack London's first-hand account of several weeks spent living in the Whitechapel district of the East End of London in 1902.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo [19cm x 13cm], xii, 322pp.24 Monochrome Illustrations. Internally some foxing, soiling and minor repairs o/w in Good condition. Red Cloth with Gilt spine and front board with some minor staining and wear. A Very Good reading copy. - . Jack London's first-hand account of several weeks spent living in the Whitechapel district of the East End of London in 1902.[1] London attempted to understand the working-class of this deprived area of the city, sleeping in workhouses[2] or on the streets, and staying as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor".
Seller: Handsworth Books PBFA, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
London, Jack (1876-1916). The People of the Abyss. London: Isbister & Co, 1903.
Price: US$275.60 + shipping
Description: Provenance: Bookplate of Clare Knowles. Finely bound in half aniline calf over boards. Frontispiece accompanied with a guard sheet. Publisher's device. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 322 pages; (8º); illustrated. Subjects:Stories. Collections. London Social conditions. London (England) Social conditions 20th century. England London. Genre: Illustrated. Short Stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
London, Jack (1876-1916). The People of the Abyss. London: Isbister & Co, 1903.
Price: US$310.00 + shipping
Description: Provenance: Bookplate of Clare Knowles. Finely bound in half aniline calf over boards. Frontispiece accompanied with a guard sheet. Publisher's device. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 322 pages; (8º); illustrated. Subjects:Stories. Collections. London Social conditions. London (England) Social conditions 20th century. England London. Genre: Illustrated. Short Stories. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.