The Son of the Sun.: Illustrated by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1912. First edition, first printing, of this collection of eight short stories featuring the adventures of Captain David Grief in the South seas. Written by London after two-year voyage in the Pacific, The Son of the Sun is "atmospheric, exciting, humorous, action-packed … London presents in David Grief a character who sheds light on the complexities of the writer's own personality. As a world-traveled adventurer, as a self-made man who rose by his own gifts to become one of the best-selling of all American writers … as a darkening and imaginative rancher-entrepreneur, the author seems to have created David Grief as a dream self-extension that celebrates business savvy, freedom, superiority, and strength" (Riedl & Tietze, p. xviii-xxxiii). The stories had originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1911. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, ship vignette to front cover. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box. Half-tone frontispiece and 3 plates. Occasional light wear to extremities, sides bright, small bump to lower edge of book block, contents clean: a near-fine copy. Gary Riedl & Thomas R. Tietze, eds., A Son of the Sun. The Adventures of Captain David Grief, 2001.