LONDON, Jack.

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LONDON, Jack.
The Cruise of the Snark. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1911. In-8 [198 x 136] with a frontispiece, XIV, 340 pp, (3) ff, 1 plate : publisher's illustrated green cloth boards, in illustrated dust jacket. First edition : it is illustrated with a color frontispiece and 120 photographs. The Snark Cruise recreates the circumnavigation attempt of Jack London (1876-1916). The nineteen months journey in the South Pacific (1907-1908), in company of his wife, was interrupted by the illness of the explorer writer. Copy complete with the rare dust jacket. It includes the bookplate of Jack London under which has been pasted a fragment of autograph letter: "Sincerely yours, // Jack London." Provenance: David Dawson, with signature on the first endpaper. Tears and wear to the dust jacket, wear to the boards.
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