first edition
1913 · New York
by London, Jack
New York: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in the scarce dust jacket. [4], 169, [1, ads] pp. Complete with the frontispiece by Gordon Grant. Publisher's olive green cloth titled in yellow and stamped in black. Slight foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, with just a bit of chipping at head and tail of spine and at corners. A Near Fine copy, overall bright and fresh, in like dust jacket.
London's novel about a young man who is lifted from his life in a log cabin by a boxing manager to pursue a career in the big city. In the boxing world, he finds corruption running rampant, and falls for a journalist who draws him into her cosmopolitan social life. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1923, as The Abysmal Brute, and again in 1936, as Conflict. The second adaptation starred John Wayne, Jean Rogers, and Frank Sheridan.
BAL 11945. Woodbridge, London, & Tweney, 109. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6797)
London's novel about a young man who is lifted from his life in a log cabin by a boxing manager to pursue a career in the big city. In the boxing world, he finds corruption running rampant, and falls for a journalist who draws him into her cosmopolitan social life. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1923, as The Abysmal Brute, and again in 1936, as Conflict. The second adaptation starred John Wayne, Jean Rogers, and Frank Sheridan.
BAL 11945. Woodbridge, London, & Tweney, 109. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6797)
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