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The Jacket (The Star Rover)

Jack London

First published 1915
Publisher Mills & Boon
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages 333
Price 6/-

  • 1st ed, 2nd printing
  • 6 shillings is the original 1st ed. price, early August 1915, and it remains the only price listed for this title (not yet 6s. and 1s.) in "A Complete List of the Mills & Boon Jack London Novels which sell in thousands", Manchester Guardian 1916-01-13 p5.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page shows no hyphen, no date; states 'Second Edition' and 'This story is published in America under the title "The Star Rover" ' -- copyright page: "Published 1915"; undated statement of US copyright by London -- text spans p1-333 -- p[334], "Printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury." -- no back pages HDL reports "333 p., [1] leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 20 cm.", presumably from a Michigan State U library record of the original. Its e-copy contains no frontispiece, and does not evidently contain any plate or illustration.
  • WorldCat record OCLC 785876467 (the only one found that reports 2nd ed., 1915) states "333, 32 pages : 1 color illustrations ; 19 cm" --that is, 32 back pages, among other things.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Jacket (The Star Rover) Cover 1915 Mills & Boon Hardcover Novel 333
The Jacket (The Star Rover) 1916 Mills & Boon Hardcover Novel 320
The Jacket Cover 2013 CreateSpace Trade Paperback Novel 192