The Cruise of the Snark

The Cruise of the Snark
London, Jack
Edité par The Macmillan Company, New York, 1911
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London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (October printing, with no later printings indicated). An about very good copy with some shelf wear and a bit of spine lean.
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Détails bibliographiques
Titre : The Cruise of the Snark
Éditeur : The Macmillan Company, New York
Date d'édition : 1911
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very good
Edition : First Edition.
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London, Jack
THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK
1911. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 6 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth with affixed front cover illustration. First Edition, October printing, which consisted of only 4,265 copies. Jack had planned for his and Charmian's voyage on this 45-foot ketch (costing him at least $30,000) to be a seven-year one -- but diseases (especially yaws) and financial crises reduced it to a two-year fiasco (1907-1909). Illustrated with his own photographs, this book is a compilation of the accounts he sent back to the magazine that had helped fund the boat's construction.~The foreword to his account of the voyage, THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK, was very revealing. "The ultimate word is I LIKE," he confessed. "It is I LIKE that makes the drunkard drunk and the martyr wear a hair shirt; that makes one man a reveler and another man an anchorite; that makes one man pursue fame, another gold, another love, and another God. Philosophy is very often a man's way of explaining his own I LIKE." Yet what of a man who wanted drink and revolution, revelry and intense study, fame, gold, love, and faith in mankind all at once, as Jack did? He could only try to do everything simultaneously, at the waste of his energy, at the eventual cost of his life. I LIKE is the cry of the child, not the voice of the grown man, which is I ACCEPT. [Sinclair]~As in all copies, the title leaf is a cancel. This is a fine, bright copy (one small edge-chip in the rear paste-down) of a book tough to find in this condition. Sisson & Martens p. 58; Blanck 11929.
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A very RARE and beautiful book by Jack London published in 1911 by Macmillan, First edition, October impression in original decorated cloth,profusely illustrated including the extra plate between pages 270 - 271 not noted in the list of illustrations!!! Externally light wear around edges and corners, shelfwear. Inside complete and clean, very light stains.
Uncommon. Rarity. Perfect Christmas gift.
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Number of Books 1
Subject Illustrated, Literature
Book Title The Cruise of the Snark
Condition Good
Author/ Illustrator Jack London
Publication year oldest item : 1911
Height : 20 cm
Edition : 1st Edition
Width : 15 cm
Language : English
Original language : Yes
Publisher : Macmillan
Binding/ Material : Hardback
Number of pages : 340