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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Cruise of the Snark. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 8vo. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. xiv, 1-340, [6, ads] pp. Publisher’s full blue cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt, pictorial paper label on front board (spine toned, some edgewear to spine and boards, some tape residue to both pastedowns, some occasional thumbsoiling in text, a few gutters overopened, skewed). Very good. FIRST EDITION. This book chronicles the voyage of London’s boat with his wife, Charmain, as well as a small crew. Later, Charmain would write her own version of this voyage, see the previous lot.