The Sea Wolf by Jack London [ILLUSTRATED EDITION / 1989]

The Sea Wolf by Jack London 

ILLUSTRATED EDITION [1989] READERS DIGEST 

Readers Digest Collector's Edition.  Large leatherette hardcover with gilded spine and great sepia illustrations throughout.   Seemingly unread and like new with flaws:

Cover adornment has some discoloration on one of the ship's sails.  There is also a line of foxing along top exterior page edges [see last photo.]  

Inside reads like new.  

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen.Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.