DUTCH COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES Jack London 1st Edition; 1st Printing Good

Description: HardcoverPublisher: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1922Used - Good. Red cloth covers with black print and ships wheel on the front cover, gold lettering and sailboat decoration on spine with letters YL added by library the book belonged to at one point. 180 pages, Covers are bright with some soiling and stains; binding is holding well; front hinge broken; stain on inside covers; front FEP has a black line created by a black magic marker which covers the name of a Free Library this book belonged to. Pages all intact and clean except for smudges in a very few places, no tears; readable. The number 778 written in ink on the bottom of the title page. All eight black and white illustrations are in place; illustration between pp 64 and 65 is missing top right corner, torn off. The frontispiece is picture of Jack London as a sailor. This is one of only 4,348 copies printed. Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!" After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection of stories, most of which he had written for young readers, but at least one of which was for more mature readers, "Whose Business is to Live." Like most of London's work, his short stories could be read by young readers and then again when they were older with mature minds. These stories draw from London's own extensive experience in the world and demonstrate the dictum that "good writing is good writing" no matter for whom it was written.

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Location: Stonington, Connecticut

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