• Publication: The Jacket (The Star Rover)Publication Record # 703681
• Author: Jack London
• Date: 1915-00-00
• Publisher: Mills & Boon
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 333
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed, 2nd printing
  • 6 shillings is the original 1st ed. price, early August 1915, and it remains the only price listed for this title (not yet 6s. and 1s.) in "A Complete List of the Mills & Boon Jack London Novels which sell in thousands", Manchester Guardian 1916-01-13 p5.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page shows no hyphen, no date; states 'Second Edition' and 'This story is published in America under the title "The Star Rover" ' -- copyright page: "Published 1915"; undated statement of US copyright by London -- text spans p1-333 -- p[334], "Printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury." -- no back pages HDL reports "333 p., [1] leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 20 cm.", presumably from a Michigan State U library record of the original. Its e-copy contains no frontispiece, and does not evidently contain any plate or illustration.
  • WorldCat record OCLC 785876467 (the only one found that reports 2nd ed., 1915) states "333, 32 pages : 1 color illustrations ; 19 cm" --that is, 32 back pages, among other things.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 785876467

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• The Jacket (The Star Rover) • (1915) • novel by Jack London (variant of The Star Rover)