The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
by LONDON, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Macmillan & Co., 1912. Bound in green cloth, stamped in black and white with tropical illustration to front panel. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. Very little wear to extremes. An unusual, bright, clean copy of this first edition of a book of six short stories. Book shows a bit of edgewear, wrinkling to back panel and minor fading to spine. Overall, though, the book is tight and clean. Ref.: BAL 11936. 232 pp. + publisher's ads. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59006465
- Title
- The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii
- Author
- LONDON, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
abookshop
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Springtown, Pennsylvania
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We have been selling books of note (especially literary first editions, poetry and drama) for over 20 years.
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