The Turtles of Tasman

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916. First Edition. 8vo. [iv], 268, [2], [5 pp advertisements] pp. Mauve cloth with yellow lettering on front board; gilt lettering on spine; pictorial front board and spine in black, brown and reddish-orange; in publisher's scrarce, unsophisticated illustrated dust jacket. The book is in fine condition, with a hint of wear to extremities. The dust jacket has three tiney closed tears along lower edge and one tiney closed tear at upper rear edge; minor wear to extremities; a near fine copy. A collection of 8 stories published just before London's death; the title story, “The Turtles of Tasman,” is one of the more whimsical and ironic tales in the volume. (BAL 11968; Sisson & Martens pg. 90).