ID 602644
Lot 326 | The Turtles of Tasman
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
Jack London, 1916
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Turtles of Tasman. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1916.
First edition in dust jacket of this collection stories. The title story is almost a novella and is followed by seven very different short stories. These include “Finis” and “The End of the Story," both classic Klondike tales of adventure, "The First Poet," a play set in the Neolithic, and “Told in the Drooling Ward,” written from the perspective of a low level assistant.
Octavo. Publisher's ads and three blank leaves at end (toned page from bookmark). Original pictorial cloth; pictorial dust jacket repeating the cloth design, by "GH" (touch of rubbing to cloth, jacket tanned, light chipping to extremities and upper flap fold, a couple short closed tears at lower edge). Custom morocco-backed clamshell box. Provenance: James Nicolas Young (period Art Nouveau bookplate).
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