Uncommon book: A Son of the Sun by Jack London. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover bound in the publisher's original pictorial navy blue cloth lettered in gray, 5.25 x 7.75, 333 pages. Book condition: G+/None, with edgewear, a wrinkle to the lower part of the front board and horizontal crease to the rear board, a thin band of dampstaining at the top of the first few pages, and ownership inscription to rear pastedown. In these tales of adventure in the South Seas, London serves up a striking panorama of scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.
