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Hardcover; leather spine & corner, over marbled paper-covered boards. Includes Issues from January 2, 1902 (Vol. 76, No. 1) through December 25, 1902 (Vol. 76 No. 52). The individual issue covers are not bound-in. The May 29th issue includes the first appearance of "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. Articles and fiction by the authors & figures of the day, including: Theodore Roosevelt; Stewart Edward White; Ellsworth Kelley; another Jack London story ("The Fuzziness of Hookla-Heen"); a Willa Cather poem ("The Night Express"); Booker T. Washington; H. Rider Haggard ("Lost on the Veld" - possibly the first appearance); Sarah Orne Jewett; etc. Many ads, and including an ~38-page ad section in the Oct 23 issue, with many picture ads of books, optical equipment, sporting goods, weapons, tools, personal care goods, musical instruments, household goods, jewelry, toys & games, etc. Edgewear, with wear at the corners and a bit at the spine extremities. ~2" tear at the front edge of the spine tail. Some surface rubbing, scratches. Page edges age-darkened. A bit of light foxing in the margins of the first couple of pages (as seen in an attached image). Light, horizontal creases where the issues were folded at one time. Else the pages are clean. Sturdily bound; the hinges are intact. This is a large, heavy book; Priority and/or International may require shipping over and above standard costs. ; 27B; 16" x 11". Seller Inventory # 62101
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