The Sea-Wolf.

LONDON, Jack (1876-1916), [AYLWARD, W.J., illustrator].

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1904. [Seafaring Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 366 [6]. With six black and white illustrated plates by Aylward, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles and colour decoration blocked to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed. Repairs to split hinges. Gently toned throughout. Moderate wear to cloth, with some toning and loss of white titles to spine. Very good. A literary man is forced to become a hardened high-seas sailor when he falls victim to a shipwreck, and is rescued by a Nietzschean Superman who presses him into service on his own ship. Item #58659

Price: £210.00