The Jacket (The Star Rover) - Jack London First Edition Mills & Boon 1915

Jack London

Published by Mills & Boon, 1915

About this Item

The Jacket (The Star Rover) - Jack London First Edition Mills & Boon 1915 This being the first English edition preceding the first US edition titled The Star Rover by a few months. An interesting work of science fiction from London in which a prisoner withstands the torture of being laced in a straitjacket by entering a trance-like state and inhabiting past lives. The "Jacket" was a real device employed at San Quentin which London learned about through interviews with the inmate Ed Morrell. Blind-ruled green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pp. [iv], 333, [1], [34 ads] + illustrated frontis.; Very Good condition with fading to spine and a small split to cloth at head of spine, light rubbing to edges, light foxing to fore-edge and first few pages, a couple small chips and creases to corners of end ads, ownership signature penned to ffep. [Sisson & Martens p. 81] Provenance: From the estate of family friend and Jack London scholar Katherine Mather Littell Jr. (1936-2003).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jacket (The Star Rover) - Jack London First Edition Mills & Boon 1915
• Publisher: Mills & Boon
• Publication Date: 1915
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 2 pounds