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[LONDON, Jack]. A New Idea in Fiction" The Star Rover by Jack London.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: [8] pp. Illustrated. Tall 8vo, publisher's illustrated blue wrappers. First edition. A fine copy. With a sketch of Jack London's life and a complete descriptive list of his novels, short stories and economic writings.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Macmilan Company. A new idea in fiction. The Star Rover, by Jack London. Macmillan Co., n.d., New York, 1915.

Price: US$31.25 + shipping

Description: Tall 8vo (approx. 8½" x 4¼"), pp. [8]; original blue pictorial wrappers; fine. Publisher's promotional leaflet touting London's latest novel, including a 3½-page biography of London, and detailed announcements of other London books for sale.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

London, Jack. THE STAR ROVER JACK LONDON A NEW IDEA IN FICTION 1915 PROMOTIONAL PAMPHLET. The MacMillan CO. NY, 1915.

Price: US$52.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Rare Jack London ephemera. Vg+ 8 page pamphlet. Contents include: "Jack London and his work" "A sketch of the life of the author of The Star Rover", Blurb about the then new latest Jack London book: The Star Rover. Price was $1.50. And a descriptive list of Jack London's writings with publisher prices and an order form at the end of lists. ; 8vo; 8 pages

Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.

London, Jack. A NEW IDEA IN FICTION" THE STAR ROVER by Jack London. WITH A SKETCH OF JACK LONDON'S LIFE AND A COMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF HIS NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND ECONOMIC WRITINGS [cover title]. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Tall octavo, pp. [1-8], three illustations, pictorial cream wrappers printed in blue-gray, stapled. First edition. A prospectus for London's 1915 novel, including "Jack London and His Work: A Sketch of the Life of the Author of 'The Star Rover,'" pp. [1-4], a brief description of THE STAR ROVER, "daring in its theme and vivid in execution," p.[4], an annotated list of London's books available from Macmillan, pp. [5-7] and an order form, p. [8]. A charming bit of ephemera for a work that constitutes one of the author's two or three most important contributions to the fantastic. Mild bump to upper right corner, else a fine copy. (#151294)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Star Rover. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: pp. 329, ads. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and front board, blue and white decoration to spine and front board. Colour frontispiece. Cloth rippled (moisture exposure? No other moisture evidence), bumped corner, endpapers splitting at hinges (mull intact); good.

Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

London, Jack. A NEW IDEA IN FICTION" THE STAR ROVER by Jack London. WITH A SKETCH OF JACK LONDON'S LIFE AND A COMPLETE DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF HIS NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND ECONOMIC WRITINGS [cover title]. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Tall octavo, pp. [1-8], three illustations, pictorial cream wrappers printed in blue-gray, stapled. First edition. A prospectus for London's 1915 novel, including "Jack London and His Work: A Sketch of the Life of the Author of 'The Star Rover,'" pp. [1-4], a brief description of THE STAR ROVER, "daring in its theme and vivid in execution," p.[4], an annotated list of London's books available from Macmillan, pp. [5-7] and an order form, p. [8]. A charming bit of ephemera for a work that constitutes one of the author's two or three most important contributions to the fantastic. A fine copy. (#152390)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

. A New Idea in Fiction" The Star Rover by Jack London. With a Sketch. , 1915.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Description: (LONDON, JACK). "A New Idea in Fiction" The Star Rover by Jack London. With a Sketch of Jack London's Life and a Complete Descriptive List of His Novels, Short Stories and Economic Writings. Original pictorial wrappers. New York: The Macmillan Company, [1915]. First edition. Publicity pamphlet for London's novel, including a brief biography and descriptions of his works to date. Fine.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

London, Jack.. THE STAR ROVER.. The Macmillan Co: NY, 1915.

Price: US$172.50 + shipping

Description: Color frontis, 7.5 x 5, gilt lettered decorated blue cloth, 329 + catalog, very heavily worn copy: inner hinges cracked, covers very heavily rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, ffep and half to the detached, pp 217-218 detached, some staining, etc. FIRST (AMERICAN) ED. ("Set up and electrotyped. Published October 1915"). SWAF.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Jack London. The Star Rover (1915 Macmillan Co. Hardcover). Macmillan Co., 1915.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1915 edition. Hardcover blue cloth with decorated and gilt lettered front panel and spine. Boards are soiled; bumped at corners; rubbed; and softened at spine ends. Leaning to spine. Back hinge is slightly cracked. Binding is cracked but still holding. Pages are clean. NO markings in text. Otherwise a nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Star Rover. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: [Vi], 329 Pp + 8 Pp Ads At Rear. Light Blue Cloth Lettered In Gilt And Decorated In Pinkish-Cream And Blackish Blue. First Printing, One Of 13, 021 Copies. Wear To Covers, Gilt Bright, Some Rubbing Away Of Dark Blue Sky On Cover And Spine, Small Frays At Corners. Inscription On Front Pastedown Dated March 4, 1917; Frontispiece And Title Page Partly Detached Along Spine Edge But Still Bound In Securely. Rear Hinge Cracked At Endpapers.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

LONDON, JACK.. THE STAR ROVER. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: Front cover and spine lettered in gilt, designed in blue, black, and white. See photos. Color frontispiece. Quite a clean and crisp copy. London considered an alternate title of "The Jacket" , and it was used in some British editions. First published in serial form in the Los Angeles Examiner, Sunday Monthly Magazine" from February-October 1914. A total of 13,021 copies were published. Provided with a FACSIMILE FIRST EDITION DUST JACKET. See Sisson/Martens pp.83-84 and BAL 11960. 329pp. + 8 pages of adverts. This novel in in the science fiction genre. It concerns a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison who is tortures with a device known as 'the jacket". He learns to withstand the torture by entering a trance-like state and wandering among the stars. The author John Griffith London lived from 1876-1916. Size: Octavo

Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.

Jack London. Star Rover. The MacMillan Company, 1915.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Spine is cocked but secure. Cover is worn, particularly along edges. Back cover is stained. Cover corners are bumped. Text block is tanned and foxed, but legibility is not affected. Front free end paper has inscription from previous owner. Inside it tanned, but unmarked and legible.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Star Rover. With splendid frontispiece in color.. The Macmillan Company, 1915.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very bright copy. Handsomely bound in finely woven blue cloth with a drawing of billowing clouds on the front boards. Stamped brightly in gilt lettering on the front boards and on the spine. The spine gilt is bright and complete; there is some flecking to several leters in the gilt title on the front boards. Faint touch of wear to the extremities. Very clean and tight throughout with the exception of a marginal smudge on p. 329. Bottom 2" of the inside rear hinge has been re-glued. A handsome, collectible copy of this science-fiction, time travel novel from inside San Quentin State Prison. With 8 pages of ads for Jack's scintillating novels at the back. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives. I trod interstellar space, exalted by the knowledge that I was bound on vast adventure, where, at the end, I would find all the cosmic formulae and have made clear to me the ultimate secret of the universe. In my hand I carried a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I must touch each star in passing. And I knew, in all absoluteness, that did I but miss one star I should be precipitated into some unplummeted abyss of unthinkable and eternal punishment and guilt. (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 1915 and with "Published October, 1915" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Star Rover. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$425.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [Vi], 329 Pp + 8 Pp Ads At Rear. Light Blue Cloth Lettered In Gilt And Decorated In Pinkish-Cream And Blackish Blue. First Printing, One Of 13, 021 Copies. Slight Rubbing, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight, No Stains, Former Owner's Name On Front Pastedown; Would Be Near Fine But Front Endpaper, Removed, Small Crack To Hinge Near Gutter Edge Of Front Pastedown, Crack Down Entire Length Of Rear Hinge On Rear Pastedown Near Gutter Edge. Binder's Fault On Spine, Gilt Title Improperly Applied And Has Smeared Onto Black And Blue Backgrounds (Binder Let Gold Sheet Apply To This Particular Book Too Long And It Came On To Area That Was Not Supposed To Be Stamped In Gilt, Not Identified As An Issue Point).

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Star Rover. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, 329pp, [10pp ads]. Publisher's original light blue cloth, stamped with cloud design in navy and white. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "Published October, 1915" on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, faint sunning to spine, spine tips lightly bumped. Some wear to hinges. Color frontispiece. A vibrant example. (BAL 11963). 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 STAR ROVER .. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-329 [330: printer's slug] [331-340: ads] [341-342: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted color frontispiece, original pictorial light blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, white and gold. First U.S. edition. The British edition (titled THE JACKET) preceded the U.S. edition. It was deposited in the British Library 4 August 1915. and was listed as "ready" in Athenaeum 7 August 1915. The U.S. edition was published in October and a copy was received by the Boston Athenaeum 14 October 1915. 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 11963. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1544. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 L-463. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 2227. Top edge of text block a bit dusty, a bright, nearly fine copy. A lovely copy of this attractive book. (#173088)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Jack London. The Star Rover by Jack London (First Edition). The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Star Rover by Jack London (First Edition) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Minor edge wear. 1 inch chip off top spine end and upper back cover. In clear protective cover. A collection of short stories revolves around the concept of reincarnation.

Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

LONDON, Jack. Star Rover. , 1915.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Description: LONDON, Jack. The Star Rover. Original pictorial cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1915. First American edition. BAL 11963. Woodbridge 132. Inner hinges just starting, loss to head of spine panel, jacket slightly toned, else near fine in very good jacket.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. THE STAR ROVER .. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-329 [330: printer's slug] [331-340: ads] [341-342: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted color frontispiece, original pictorial light blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, white and gold. First U.S. edition. The British edition (titled THE JACKET) preceded the U.S. edition. It was deposited in the British Library 4 August 1915. and was listed as "ready" in Athenaeum 7 August 1915. The U.S. edition was published in October and a copy was received by the Boston Athenaeum 14 October 1915. 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 11963. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1544. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 L-463. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 2227. Slight spine lean, inner front hinge repaired, cloth rubbed at lower spine end and lower corner tips, page edges tanned, a very good copy with bright cover stamping in very good pictorial dust jacket (priced $1.50 on the spine panel) that reproduces the color frontispiece on the front panel. The jacket is dust soiled, the spine panel is a bit tanned, and there is some internal white paper tape reinforcement at the spine ends and corners. The jacket is complete and unrestored. This is a pretty nice example of the jacket. (#172811)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Star Rover. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "Set up and electrotyped. Published, October, 1915" printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket has the publisher's $1.50 printed price present on the spine with NO chips or tears. The book is in great shape and is bound in the publisher's blue cloth. The binding in tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy of this First Edition book with the scarce First Issue dustjacket. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy London First Editions with the ORIGINAL dustjacket.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.