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Up for sale or purchase is a highly fascinating vintage printing of Irving Stone's acclaimed biographical masterpiece: "Jack London, Sailor on Horseback." First published in 1938, this seminal biographical novel vividly brings the turbulent, adventurous, and larger-than-life story of Jack London (author of "The Call of the Wild") to life with incredible detail and candor.
This collectible volume features the scarce Doubleday, Doran & Company variant dust jacket and includes a wonderful piece of personal history: a vintage, era-appropriate handwritten pencil inscription on the front flyleaf page adjacent to the jacket flap.
Item Details:
- Title: Jack London, Sailor on Horseback
- Author: Irving Stone
- Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
- Release Date: 1938
- Format: Hardcover with original dust jacket (Stated $1.50 price code on flap)
- Condition: Good Vintage Condition. The original dust jacket shows typical mid-century wear, including light edge rubbing, minor creasing, and tiny chips along the spine extremities, but remains bright and complete. The internal text block is solid and firmly bound. Pages show uniform, clean vintage age-toning. Features a neat, authentic period pencil inscription on the front endpaper. Please see the high-resolution photos for full detail on condition.
A beautiful addition to any collection of classic American biographies, Jack London memorabilia, or vintage 1930s literature.