London Children OF THE Frost

Carey, John (editor) (Thucydides; Xenophon; Plato; Julius Caesar; Tacitus; Josephus; Pliny the Younger; Herodian; Priscus; Ibn Fadlan; William of Newburgh; Edward Grim; Beha ed Din; Marco Polo; Sir John Froissart; Henry Knighton): THE FABER BOOK OF REPORTAGE: Plague in Athens; The Greeks March to the Sea; The Death of Socrates; Caesar Invades Britain; Rome Burns; The Siege of Jerusalem; The Eruption of Vesuvius; The Deification of the Emperor Septimius Serverus; Dinner with Attila, London Faber and Faber 1990
ISBN: 0571141633 Very Good

(xxxviii) 706 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; ink marks on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are stories too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Plague in Athens 430 BC by Thucydides; The Greeks March to the Sea 401 BC by Xenophon; The Death of Socrates 399 BC by Plato; Caesar Invades Britain 55 BC by Julius Caesar; Rome Burns AD 64 by Tacitus; The Siege of Jerusalem AD 70 by Josephus; The Eruption of Vesuvius 24 August AD 79 by Pliny the Younger; The Deification of the Emperor Septimius Serverus AD 211 by Herodian; Dinner with Attila the Hun c. AD 450 by Priscus; A Viking Funeral AD 922 by Ibn Fadlan; The Green Children c. 1150 by William of Newburgh; The Murder of Thomas Becket 29 December 1170 by Edward Grim; Richard I Massacres Prisoners after Taking Acre 2 - 20 August 1191; Kublai Khan's Park c. 1275 by Marco Polo; Mishaps in Childhood 1301 - 1337 - Calendar of Coroner's Rolls; The Battle of Crecy 26 September 1346 by Sir John Froissart; The Black Death 1348 by Henry Knighton; Women Ape Men 1348 by Henry Knighton; The Capture of Guines January 1352 by Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook; False Mutes October 1380 - City of London Letter-books; The Peasants' Revolt May - June 1381 by Sir John Froissart; The Battle of Agincourt 25 October 1415 by Jehan de Wavrin; Norwegian Fisherfolk 1432 by Cristoforo Fioravanti; The New World January - February 1502 by Amerigo Vespucci; A Salamander 1505 by Benvenuto Cellini; Spanish Atrocities in the West Indies c. 1513 - 1520 by Bartolome de Las Casas; The Performing Ass Cairo 1516 by John Leo; Human Sacrifice Among the Aztecs c. 1520 by Jose de Acosta; The Incas' Golden Garden c. 1530 by Garcilaso de la Vega; The Progress of the English Reformation 1537 - 1538 by John London, Roger Townshend, Richard Layton and Geoffrey Chamber; With the Spaniards in Paraguay 1537 - 1540 by Hulderike Schnirdel; The Execution of Archbishop Cranmer 21 March 1556 - Anonymous; Prisoners of the Inquisition 1568 - 1575 by Miles Phillips; The Sack of Antwerp by a Spanish Army 4 November 1576 by George Gascoigne; The Arrest of the Catholic Priest Edmund Campion and His Associates 17 July 1581 - Anonymous; Some London Criminals 1581 by William Fleetwood; Babylon in 1583 by John Eldred; Natural Childbirth in India 1583 by John Huyghen Van Linschoten; Shipwreck off Mozambique August 1585 by John Huyghen Van Linschoten; A London Merchant in Cairo 1586 by John Sanderson; The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots 8 February 1586 by Robert Wynkfielde; The Seasons in Russia 1589 by Giles Fletcher; The Last Flight of the Revenge 13 September 1591 by John Huyghen Van Linschoten; Trapped in the Arctic Ice 1596 by Gerrit de Veer; A Jesuit is Tortured in the Tower 14 - 15 April 1597 by John Gerard; A Private Audience with Elizabeth I 8 December 1597 by Andre Hurault; English Merchants in Java c. 1602 by Edmund Scot; The Effects of Elizabethan Policy in Ireland 1602 by Fynes Moryson; Newfoundland Mermaid 1610 by Richard Whitbourne; Whirling Dervishes 1613 by Thomas Coryate; The Magnificence of the Great Mogul 1616 - 1617 by Sir Thomas Roe; The Great Mogul: His Cruelty 1618 by Edward Terry; The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham 23 August 1620 by Sir Dudley Carleton; Landing in New England November 1620 by William Bradford; Oliver Cromwell Writes to His Brother-in-Law after the Battle of Marston Moor 2 July 1644 by Oliver Cromwell; Circumsicion: Rome 16 January 1645 by John Evelyn; Suttee c. 1650 by Jean Baptiste Tavernier; George Fox Visits Lichfield 1651 by George Fox; Religious Observances in Dunkirk 1662 by John Greenhalgh; The Fire of London 2 September 1666 by Samuel Pepys; The Great Frost January 1684 by John Evelyn; The English Love of Fighting 1695 by Mission de Valbourg; Conditions of Life Aboard the French Galleys 1703 - 1704 by John Bion; The Battle of Schellenberg 2 July 1704 by M. de la Colonie; Robinson Crusoe Found 2 February 1709 by Woodes Rogers; Bull-Baiting: London 1710 by Zacharias Conrad Von Uffenbach; Turkish Bath: Adrianople 1 April 1717 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Albatross Shot 1 October 1719 by George Shelvocke; Crossing the Alps November 1739 by Thomas Gray; The Black Hole of Calcutta 21 June 1756 by J. Z. Holwell; The First Manned Flight in England 15 September 1784 by Vincent Lunardi; Nelson Loses an Arm Santa Cruz Tenerife 25 June 1797 by William Hoste; Waterloo 18 June 1815: The Finale by Captain J. Kincaid; The Indian Mutiny: Retribution for the Massacre July 1857 by General Havelock; Gettysburg: The Confederate Bombardment 3 July 1863 by Samuel Wilkeson; Stanley Finds Livingstone 10 November 1871 by H. M. Stanley; The First Radio Signal Across the Atlantic 12 December 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi; The San Francisco Earthquake 17 April 1906 by Jack London; The Titanic: From a Lifeboat 15 April 1912 by Mrs D. H. Bishop; The Louis-Schmeling Fight 22 June 1938 by Bob Considine; Blitzkrieg: German Breakthrough on the Meuse 15 May 1940 by Erwin Rommel; Auschwitz: The Gas Chambers 25 December 1941 by Sophia Litwinska; Nagasaki 9 August 1945 by William T. Laurence; Stalingrad 1949 by John Steinbeck; The First Men on the Moon 21 July 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin; and many many more. Scans are available for all books. Fourth Printing Trade Paperback 8vo

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London, Jack. (edited by Paul J Horowitz). The Works of Jack London. New York. Avenel Books. 1980
ISBN: 0517309807

Octavo, blue cloth with gilt decoration and titling to top board and spine. 761pp. Name labels to both pastedowns and front endpaper, all crossed through with black marker. Else a clean and tight copy that is Vg+. Contains - The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Son of the Wolf; The God of the Fathers; Children of the Frost; The Faith of Men; The Sea-Wolf and Two Tales of the Klondike.

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London Jack: The Call of the Wild, New York London The Macmillan Company :macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1903
Very Good Goodwin, Bull & Hooper

A tight July 1903 first edition with clean covers with some faults. The spine is slightly faded and the snoow in the poicture shows some of the underlying ribbing but the picture is still clean and the gilt titles still pretty bright. There is colour rubbed off the spine ends and there are some splits long the edge. The cober edges have a little colour rubbed off. The picture on the front cover is clear and bright despite the ribbing showing a little through the white snow. There is a small scag in the cloth about 1" above the bottom edge of the back cover All four corners are underturned, the two front ones are just split through showing the board. The front and back endpapers are clean and the hinges good. The half title has a hadnwritten owner's name and a furry mark left after the removal of another. The book is generally clean with a few very pale thumb prints in a few page margins. Page 95 - the plate " It was to the death" appears to have been loose has more vague soiling and has been reattached. It also has four closed tears, the longest one being about a half an inch. 231 pages + a page advertisement for " The Children of the Frost" with advertisements for " A Gentleman of the South " and " Kotto " on the verso of the page. A tissue guarded frontispiece and 17 full plate illustrations. First Edition No Dustjacket Cloth 8vo

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London, Jack: Jack London Illustrated : The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, and 40 Short Stories, New York, New York Crown / Avenel 1980
ISBN: 0517309807 Very Good Various Artists

"Many of London's best and most popular works are inlcuded in this volume, which has been profusely illustrated with the original art work that accompanied the stories when first issued. ..."The Son of the Wolf", "The God of His Fathers", "Children of the Frost", and "The Faith of Men" Light tears on the DJ. Small pencil mark on the FFEP, erased, scuffing the page. Light age toning to the pages gives it the feel of a Victorian classic. Second Printing Very Good Buckram 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Anthology

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