Sail on The Islander: a magazine of life, romance, adventure. Hails monthly from Jack London's home port. vol. 1 #1 July 1934
Oakland: The Seven Seas Publishing Co., 1934. Magazine. Single leaf of coated paperstock printed in blue ink and folded to make a 4p. newsletter "magazine," 8.5x5.5 inches, banner shows a three-masted clipper in silhouette. A very worn creased copy with what looks like a job-lot printer's notes in red pencil. As is.
Find the editor's musings on the death of Jack London --did the negativity of the last books indicate that London was suicide-bound? "to be concluded in the August number." Find brief mention of current bestsellers: Stuart Chase on the economy, Upton Sinclair ditto, novels "Anthony Adverse" and "Mutiny on the Bounty. General topics such as spiritual blindness, professor Davidson "profound research on the Great Pyramid, ads for Gland Food, a bakery on Foothill Blvd, a pupil of Isadora Duncan now available for "concert engagements," quotations from Whitman and George Sterling.
Cat.No: 184522
Price: $12.00