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1910TB22451New York: Macmillan Company 1910. First Edition. First printing Very good- in blue cloth covered boards with white text on the spine and front board. The cloth at the head of the spine is worn and rubbed and beginning to fray. At the heel of the spine the cloth is rubbed and the text lettering on the spine remains only in fragments. The text on the front board is all intact. There is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with the same owner's name in pencil together with a date of Oct. 1910 on the first free end page. Missing its very scarce dust jacket. 361 pages of text followed by eleven pages of ads by the publisher. An attractive first edition with "Macmillan" at the base of the spine and with one blank page at the end of the text and a blank leaf at the rear of the advertisements. BAL 11918; Sisson p. 48; Woodbridge 75 Macmillan Company hardcover books
1917137641917. New York: The Macmillan Company 1917. 8 pp undated ads. Original orange-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book about a dog written by the author while stretched out on Waikiki Beach. In early 1915 Jack and Charmian left California for Hawaii plagued by financial problems he owned and owed mortgages on six houses for himself and for his dependents -- yet the financial problems were not so bad that the two of them couldn't have four or five servants in Honolulu. The only way out of the financial problems was through hackwork. He decided to set off for Hawaii with Charmian and to write two new dog stories. They had never failed him. The market would lap them up. The leisured life in Honolulu did not encourage him to write well and his two dog novels were no more than competent products for the market. JERRY OF THE ISLANDS was the worse with its hero a thoroughbred Irish terrier specially trained for n-word-chasing. Yet this hackwork did keep his head above water. Sinclair This is a very good-plus copy with very minor soil and rubbing; the front paste-down bears a "News Co." ink-stamp. Sisson & Martens p. 94; Blanck 11973. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1913136651913. Illustrated by H.T. Dunn. New York: The Century Co. 1913. Original very dark green cloth. First Edition first issue with only one blank leaf at the rear other than the endpaper. This was London's "confessional book" a fictional but quite autobiographical tale that Jack wrote to exorcise his shame -- which bore witness to the fear behind Jack's renewed and excessive drinking. The prohibitionists had cleverly used the universal terror of syphilis to urge the crusade against the saloon. Only after a man had too much to drink -- the propaganda said -- would he pick up a woman and a disease to blight the home. With his secret fears about contamination by disease or alcohol Jack provided in JOHN BARLEYCORN the best ammunition that the drys had ever been handed by a major writer. JOHN BARLEYCORN was sensational as the history of a man who drank too much yet who claimed to hold his liquor. Its author only hinted at the psychological and physical fears that made him a heavy drinker and while the book overstated the deprivation of his youth it understated the internal disturbances and agony in his kidneys which drove him to the stupor of the bottle. "The only trouble I may say about JOHN BARLEYCORN" he wrote in 1913 "is that. I did not dare put in the whole truth." The truths he omitted were. the connection between his drinking and early whoring on the waterfront his horror that Charmian's loss of her child might have resulted from a taint in his blood due to the mixed poison of alcohol and residual disease. Sinclair This is a near-fine copy a touch of natural bubbling of the cloth spine gilt less than bright. Sisson & Martens p. 72; Blanck 11946. unknown books
1917137651917. Mountfort. New York: The Macmillan Company 1917. 10 pp undated ads. Original red-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book published about six months after JERRY OF THE ISLANDS. Though both books were written by Jack in Honolulu as cash-raising hackwork MICHAEL BROTHER OF JERRY was a better book. It argued that far worse than the Social Pit for men were the cages for trained dogs and circus animals. All the foul tricks of the trade were exposed. So effective was his indignation that hundreds of London clubs sprang up on the publication of the book dedicated to ending the trade in performing animals. Sinclair By the time Jack wrote this book in late 1915 on his and Charmian's second trip to Hawaii during 1915-1916 Jack was swilling so much fruit juice as it helped flush out the toxins his kidneys couldn't handle that he was becoming quite fat. He rarely stirred out of his kimono and his hammock. He felt too ill to walk more than a block and he preferred to take the chauffeur and the car for the shortest excursion. This is a near-fine copy very slightly rubbed at the extremities but the title page bears a blind-stamp and the paste-down an ink-stamp of an early Maine bookseller. Sisson & Martens p. 96; Blanck 11974. <br/><br/> hardcover books
190427590London: Heinemann 1904. First English edition. viii 246 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brownish-red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Spine darkened preliminaries a little spotted otherwise very good. First English edition. viii 246 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL records the London edition was advertised for 9 May 1904; the New York edition was advertised in mid-April. BAL 11878 note; Woodbridge 27 Heinemann unknown books
1904017738New York April: The Macmillan and Co 1904. First Edition. Octavo. 286pp. 2pp. ads at rear bound in blue cloth pictorially decorated depicting pine cones on a branch with a silver moon behind with background color of blue-green spine and top edge gilt. A very nice copy with off-setting to pg. 177 from news print some rubbing to corners and spine. The Macmillan and Co unknown books
1905135521905. With Illustrations and Decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. New York: The Macmillan Company 1905. 6 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white and brown. First Edition which consisted of 26420 copies. In this prizefighting tale Joe Fleming tries to convince his fiancée to accept his career by inviting her to watch him box a precursor to the "Rocky" movies: the fight blow-by-blow occupies almost the entire second half of the book. Jack had long cherished a cult of the perfect male body. He had pictures taken of himself in bathing costume flexing his muscles and shadowboxing. He took snapshots of George Sterling posing on the beach wearing nothing. Obsessive descriptions of male Anglo-Saxon strength grace and sexuality began to creep into his novels particularly THE GAME written in the summer of 1904. In that romance of prizefighting the hero expressed Jack's vanity about his own body -- his skin was fair as a woman's his face like a Greek cameo his stance a perfection of line and strength yet with a deep smooth chest and "muscles under their satin sheaths -- crypts of energy wherein lurked the chemistry of destruction." Sinclair This is a handsomely but oddly bound book with symbols of death and of fate on the binding on the endpapers and throughout the text. This copy has on the copyright page a hand-stamped two-line notice in type that is 3/32" tall some copies have it in smaller type and a few have no such notice -- precedence unknown though S&M speculates that copies with no stamp were first. This is a very good-plus copy with some rubbing at the extremities. Sisson & Martens p. 24; Blanck 11886. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1901017751New York: McClure Phillips & Co 1901. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Author's second book 299pp. bound in blue cloth upper board lettered and decoratively tamped in gilt spine gilt some rubbing to covers small area on spine faded rear inner hinge cracking small bookseller ticket. BAL 11870. McClure, Phillips & Co unknown books
1907138701907. With a Dedicatory Poem by George Sterling. Collected by the Book Committee of the Spinners' Club. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company n.d.1907. Original coarse unbleached linen decorated in dark green with front cover applied illustration top page edges gilded. First Edition of this volume of stories by California writers illustrated by California artists designed by John Nash and printed at the Tomoye Press for Paul Elder of San Francisco. In addition to this tale by Jack London there are literary contributions by fifteen others about half of them women -- such as Gertrude Atherton Frank Norris Charles Warren Stoddard and Isobel Strong stepdaughter of R. Louis Stevenson. As for Jack London's contribution which had appeared in his CHILDREN OF THE FROST in 1902: "The League of Old Men" is one of the four pieces 'which are essential to the London vision of the Northwest' according to Calder-Marshall and London often said that it was his personal favourite. In it London gives a sensitive description of the white man's destruction of the lives of the Indians of the Yukon."Lundberg. In this book London's tale is accompanied by a color plate by Maynard Dixon. This copy is in the binding that is listed by Blanck "in probable order" second of four -- coarse unbleached linen stamped in dark green with top edges gilded. Condition is in a word fine very light rubbing to the front cover illustration. Blanck 11999. unknown books
1916137621916. New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. 6 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black white and orange. First Edition of this tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of Jack's death he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck -- "Jack persisted in gobbling underdone flesh as if he were a wolf." The novel was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex. "It is all sex from start to finish --" he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved and in which nevertheless is all the guts of sex coupled with strength.". As in THE SEA-WOLF Jack split his own role between the two male protagonists the ranch owner Dick Forrest and the romantic adventurer Evan Graham. Forrest is Jack's ideal of the rich commercial rancher of the future the owner of 250000 acres worked on strict scientific principles. Evan Graham is another version of Dick Forrest but he has chosen to remain a writer and a wanderer -- the escapist ideal of Jack himself. Both men. compete for the love of Dick's wife Paula -- a vision of Charmian as the elegant hostess the athletic horsewoman and the Eternal Kid of Jack's fantasies. She kills herself to solve her dilemma the day before Dick has decided to do the same thing. The end of Paula is indeed sinister. Having shot herself she is revived by the use of a stimulant then given a large dose of morphine to allow her to slip away without pain. The closing lines suggest Jack's own reliance on drugs to kill the unceasing pain of his kidneys and his bladder. Sinclair This is a very good copy rear endpaper split some erosion of the black pigment minor natural wrinkling of the flat spine. Sisson & Martens p. 88; Blanck 11966. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1916WRCLIT38144New York: Macmillan 1916. Pictorial bright blue cloth. Frontis. First edition normal state of the copyright notice. Very slight bubbling to cloth along joints spine stamping a bit rubbed but otherwise a very good bright copy. BAL 11966. Macmillan hardcover books
191527598London: Mills & Boon 1915. First British edition. Color frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Spine a little dulled else very good. First British edition. Color frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 11956 American ed. Mills & Boon unknown books
1913WRCLIT38154New York: Century 1913. Grey cloth lettered in gilt decorated in black. Frontis. First edition BAL's printing 1 presumed priority binding 1. A couple tiny spots to upper board corners slightly rubbed else very good and tight. BAL 11942. BLEILER p.126. SMITH L-454. Century hardcover books
1913Embry 144108The Century Co. New York: 1913. First edition first state with single blank at end. Inked name and date to front free endpaper light rubbing to joints and spine tips overall near fine in custom mylar cover. Blue/gray cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black. BAL 11942. The Century Co., New York: 1913. First edition, first state with single blank at end. hardcover books
1905D12700London: William Heinemann 1905. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 8vo; pp. 182 plus frontispiece and 5 plates and with numerous illustrations in text. Ownership signature of Bessie "Becky" London Jack's second daughter from his first marriage born 1902 on verso of FFEP. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped and a little frayed; a few small scuff marks on boards; front hinge tender. <br/><br/> William Heinemann hardcover books
178622135London: S.W. Fores 1786. Boards. Orig. illustrated lithograph in a multitude of colors. Fine. 27.5 x 37 cm. Hand colored lithograph from S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse. Caption in right corner read "Man Traps & Spring Guns. Brightly colored print colors fresh and clean. S.W. Fores unknown books
183222145London: Thos McLean 1832. Brown wood frame. Near fine. Color lithograph 8 7/16 x 12 1/2 inches within border frame in matted glass fronted frame wired for hanging. Artist is John Doyle DB with his circular embossed seal in lower left corner. Doyle experienced great success with his political cartoons using the new medium of lithography. His caricatures were mostly faithful likenesses of his subjects. His sons included the illustrator James William Edmund Doyle and painter/illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle. After visiting King William IV on May 8 Lord Grey Prime Minister and Lord Brougham Lord Chancellor were not offered victuals by the King and so get some mutton chop at a posting house in Hounslow. Grey is disconsolate Brougham cheerful holding a chop speared on a fork saying "My Lord you don't eat your chops I have already placed six in Schedule A. & am about to discuss a seventh while you have scarcely got thro' one come cheer up all will be well tomorrow." Grey responds by noting his fear of omens upon entering the post house. Slight rubbing to vertical portions of the picture frame. Thos McLean unknown books
18192072345Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Paternoster-Row 1819. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Rebacked with new endpapers. Fore-edge corners rubbed library blind stamp on title page no other marks a couple pages foxed. 1819 Half-Leather. xxiii 435 pp. 8vo. Six engraved plates including one in color illustrating rheumatic ophthalmia. A collection of medical papers including John Bostock's Case of Periodical Affection of the Eyes and Chest Garrison-Morton 2582: 'Bostock Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row hardcover books
1906M11881London:: The Stereoscope Company 1906. 1906. Original black-and-white photograph 11.5 x 8 inches mounted on printed paper board 16 x 14 inches of the hospital's nurses and physicians. Small piece missing top paper board edge obscuring the first three letters of "Ophthalmic" and waterstains to the right of the image barely affecting its clarity. Good. Those pictured include an international group from India Ceylon Canada Smyrna Egypt USA and a relative minority from the UK. Two are from the family of Conover must be related: H. L. Arnold Omaha Nebraska / E. Pardee Bucke London Canada / Dr. Albert E. Bulson Jr. Fort Wayne Indiana / Oreste Connonis Smyrna / T. S. Conover Flint Michigan / W. J. Conover Evert Michigan / Robert Henry Cowley Berea Kentucky d.ca.1949 / W. G. Dobson Poughkeepsie NY / J. W. Foley Denver Colorado / A. J. Hall Dunedin New Zealand / David Isaacs Omaha NE / K. N. Karanita India / E. G. Linn Chicago IL / E. A. Mascarenhas Karachi India / Chas. E. Miller Muncie Indiana / L. Monstakas Cairo Egypt / A. J. Mummert Los Angeles CA / D. Nathan Montreal Canada / E. L. Raffel Colombo Ceylon / C. M. Sneed Colombia MO / W. J. Tait London Ontario / E. Treacher Collins London England / J. R. Walker Fresno California. / W. S. Woon Blooming Prairie Minn. Sister Kitchen Claud A. Worth London England / Mary A. Wilson Indianapolis IN / Two additional children are labeled as "mascots".Among the most prominent of these members was Edward Treacher Collins. Treacher–Collins syndrome is named after Edward Treacher Collins 1862–1932 "the English surgeon and ophthalmologist who described its essential traits in 1900. In 1949 Franceschetti and Klein described the same condition on their own observations as mandibulofacial dysostosis. The term mandibulofacial dysostosis is used to describe the clinical features. He was the son of Dr. W. J. Collins and Miss Treacher. Treacher Collins used his mother's maiden name and his father's surname without a hyphen according to the custom of the time. He entered University College London. In 1879 he began studies at Middlesex Hospital; he received his medical degree in 1883. Influenced by his older brother Sir William Collins he decided to specialize in ophthalmology. For his internship he went to the Moorfields Eye Hospital where he remained as a faculty member for the next 48 years. His work culminated in the publication Researches into the Anatomy and Pathology of the Eye 1896 which earned him worldwide recognition." Wikipedia He also wrote a history of the Moorfields Eye Hospital the present name for what was formerly called the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital The history and traditions of the Moorfields Eye Hospital. One hundred years of ophthalmic discovery and development London 1929. Frank Law contributed a second volume in 1975. The Stereoscope Company, 1906. unknown books
SKU1009647Macmillan. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. B005ZHBM82 March 1910 First Edition maroon cloth boards- rectangle gilt square with author and title- MacMillan on spine- some fading to color on spine but all writing easily legible- centimeter tear to top of spine fabric clean tight small letter "M" written on front blank page- no other marks or notes 4 pages of ads in back overall good condition: Prompt shipping and professional packing. Macmillan hardcover books
1914017354New York: The Macmillan Co 1914. First Edition. Octavo. The "Sonoma Edition" was a collection of the best of London's novels all apparently using the first edition sheets bound in red cloth with a central gilt title "Sonoma Edition". 378pp. 8pp. ads at rear frontispiece tipped in. A very nice clean copy with slight fading and wear to spine. Beautiful Book Store label in back of book. The Jones Book Store 426-8 w. 6th Street Los Angeles. Unlike the rubber stamps with which he stamped the books in the store's early days his successors produced a beautiful label once the store relocated for the last time. The Macmillan Co unknown books
1960125432Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Based on the novel "All the Way" by noted hard-boiled author Charles Williams. <br/><br/>Edmond O'Brien is hired to impersonate a murdered businessman and dominates nearly every scene mostly on the phone as the "third voice" in this strange film post-noir entry. The first adaptation of a of Charles Williams novel and one of only a few American film adaptations of his work. <br/><br/>One sheet folded twice as issued with one insert 13 x 16 inches. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears and light rubbing. <br/><br/>Spicer p. 424. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1881229162London Illustrated London News 1881. 1881. 4to. Illustrated with 6 full page chromolithographed color plates of children at play after Kate Greenaway and numerous b/w woodcuts. Original pictorial color wrappers. Very good. 72 pages original pictorial color wrappers. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Leighton Brothers. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Illustrated London News [1881]. paperback books
1852101422Folio 16" x 11 1/2" laminated mint green colored boards illustrated. Top hinge cracked spine somewhat split and torn chips and wear at extremities small bookplate on front pastedown a bit of foxing some browning and aging not collated but issues appear complete. This is a collection of the Illustrated London News that was probably used to promote subscriptions. The date on the tile page indicates 1852 but the actual issues seem to run from June 11 1842 to May 6 1843. This volume contains about twenty five issues. While many issues say reprint these reprints were done around 1852 for what appears some promotional effort. This volume contains some of the earlier issues of this publication which began in May 1842. It contains some interesting news and illustrations including a small engraving of a cricket match p.164 an article on prison reform October 22 1842 and catching a whale p. 388. books
19076260New York: The Macmillan Company 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 242pp. 4pp. ads with 8 full page color plates and with numerous other illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Bound in light brown pictorial cloth depicting animal tracks in brown and gray lettering red outlined in white. Neat previous owner's name dated 1907. A just about fine copy. <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
