dashman@rti-sel.UUCP (03/07/86)
I have been searching high and low for a reading copy of Jack London's "Burning Daylight", originally published in 1910 by The New York Herald Company and last published (7th printing) in 1959 by MacMillan (N.Y., Atlanta). Most bookstores, used and otherwise, have not even heard of the title. I began to think that I was crazy, and hadn't really read this book when I was a teen. Finally some bookstore clerk in Washington, D.C. told me that he had heard of it, but could not find a copy. When visiting my parents, who still live in the town where I spent my teenage years, I stopped in the library to see if they still had a copy, since this was where I had originally found it. In fact they had the very copy that I had read....it hadn't been read by anyone in about 5 years, and they were unwilling to let me have it (and I was unwilling to expropriate it for myself). Soooooo, I know that it exists somewhere, and that somewhere there is a copy for me to have for my very own self. If anyone reading this newsgroup knows of the whereabouts of reading copy of this wonderful story of the Klondike gold rush, greed, capitalism, and the virtue of simple pleasures, please, PLEASE, send me a pointer/address/phone number so that I may get my hands on it. I don't need a leather bound first edition in 'proof' condition, but I'd pay a reasonable ($5-10) amount for a usable version. Thanks in advance. Eric