The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Jack London — 1st Edition

£148.50

The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Jack London — 1st Edition

Name: The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Jack London — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 6938
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Publication: London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1915

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 396, 32 (publisher's catalogue).

Condition Report: Very Good. The original green publisher's cloth binding remains notably sound and square, resisting the structural softening often found in early twentieth-century trade editions. The gilt lettering to the spine retains strong legibility, though the spine cloth itself presents a slight, even dulling consistent with shelf exposure. The extremities show minor rubbing and the corners are gently bumped, but the cloth is free of significant fraying, tears, or loss. The text block is tight. The fore and bottom edges exhibit expected age-toning and moderate foxing, a common occurrence given the paper stock of the era, which lightly encroaches onto the preliminary and terminal leaves. The internal pages are otherwise largely clean and supple, with the colour frontispiece securely intact. A pleasing, structurally robust survivor.

Catalogue Note: This is the First British Edition of Jack London's maritime novel, issued by Mills & Boon in 1915 following the American publication by Macmillan the previous year. It retains the original blind-stamped green cloth binding and the publisher’s 32-page catalogue at the rear. The volume includes a striking, uncredited colour frontispiece illustration.

Copies of this early UK edition in their original binding, especially without significant structural defects or severe cloth degradation, are becoming increasingly scarce on the open market, as wartime paper quality and heavy readership typically resulted in severe physical attrition.

Drawing heavily from Jack London’s own 1912 voyage around Cape Horn aboard the Dirigo, The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a visceral and psychological maritime thriller. When a disillusioned writer takes passage on a grand sailing ship, he anticipates a restorative journey, only to find himself trapped at the centre of a brutal and bloody uprising. London masterfully contrasts the sublime power of the ocean with the raw, chaotic violence of a divided crew, delivering a gripping exploration of survival, class conflict, and human nature pushed to its most desperate limits.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Jack London

Book Publisher: Mills & Boon, Limited

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Classic Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 396

Book Publication Year: 1915

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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