THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE
London, Jack
Verkäufer Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, USA
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Verkäufer Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 2 von 5 Sternen
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 23. Juni 1999
Beschreibung
London: Mills & Boon, (1914). [4]+32 pp ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition. This tale, serialized as "Sea Gangsters," involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons' problems with the tropics (per the theories he had read in Woodruff's EFFECTS OF TROPICAL LIGHT ON WHITE MEN). Jack wrote THE ELSINORE soon after he and Charmian returned from his "Millergraph" trip to New York City; their five-month return was on the clipper ship "Dirigo," out of Baltimore around Cape Horn, in mid-1912. (His last acts on shore were to shave his head bald and to have a photograph taken of himself standing by Poe's grave.) Since there was no alcohol on board, Jack went through withdrawal from his dependence upon it, and proclaimed that he was not an alcoholic -- though Charmian knew that would last only until the pain in his kidneys and bowels would again become unbearable.[Sinclair] Jack, with major gastrointestinal problems of his own, watched the ship's captain slowly die of stomach cancer during the voyage. Charmian became pregnant again, but soon after they arrived back in Glen Ellen she miscarried -- confirming Jack's fear that he would have no son and heir for the ranch. And so began Jack's new "period of disgust." This is the English edition, bearing the same 1914 date as the New York edition but published four months later, in January 1915 (and containing the same dramatic color frontispiece). The reason the American edition has a detailed colorful binding and the English one does not, is that England was already at war. Excepting that the volume is slightly askew, this is a fine copy. See Sisson & Martens p. 78 and Blanck 11956. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12685
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Titel: THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE
Erscheinungsdatum: 1914
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage
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