OFFERED HERE is a lot of 2 books, one being the Macmillan first edition and the other being the Photoplay edition, of Jack London's Burning Daylight. Published by Macmillan Co., New York, in October 1910. The photoplay edition is published by Grosset & Dunlap, with illustrations being scenes from the movie, a first national picture starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon. Set among the denizens of the Alaska Gold Rush, Yukon, and San Francisco. Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, one of the best-selling books of that year and London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel has been adapted for film.

Plot

The first part of the novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893 and in Alaska.The second part of the novel takes place in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area. "Burning Daylight", the main character, is partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith, but named for Elam Harnish (1866-1941).

Distribution

In 1910, the New York Herald published the novel serially, later that year, Macmillan published the novel as a book.

Etymology

Shakespeare uses "burning daylight" in Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor.