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2290New York and London: Macmillan 1907. An octavo 242 pages plus ads. First Edition bound in original pictorial cloth. Adise from some offsetting from a small newspaper portrait of London tipped-on to the verso of the frontispiece and some browning to the free endpapers this is a fine bright copy. Nicely illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. hardcover books
19078515New York. The Macmillan Company 1907. Bound in pictorial decorated brown buckram 8vo. First Edition.This copy inscribed boldly in ink by Jack London to his Sister Ida London Byrne and his Brother-In-Law Jack on the Front free endsheet In a strongbroad hand requiring the majority of the Front Free Endsheet London writes : "Dear Ida & Jack- With love and lots off sic it from your brother Jack London. Oakland Calif. April 171907 " A most ironic spelling error "off for "of " by one of history's great writers ! Accompanying this volume is a postcard loosely laid-in. The front of the postcard is a photograph of Jack and Charmian London outside their home Wake Robin Lodge in Glen Ellen. Portions of the rear of the card present old scrapbook adhesive remnants which obscure portions of the postmark and stamp as well as the address and message. Postmarked Oakland January 1913 day obscured it is addressed to Mrs. Alice shade in San Francisco. The inked message begins "Dear Friend" with the remaining text indecipherable due to adhesive remnant. It is signed "Yours Ida Byrne her married name . Illustrated with 8 colour plates map and additional monochrome drawings ex text by Charles Livingston Bull. Ida London 1870-1914 was the younger daughter of John London Jack's step-father.From the turbulence of their early family life through Jack' meteoric rise to fame and ultimate early death Jack and Ida enjoyed a close and loving relationship with Jack assuming an almost paternal role in the raising of IDA's daughterwhom she had named after Jack's wife Charmian. She and her family often lived at her Brother's ranch in Glen Ellen where her husband Jack Byrnewas employed by London as Personal Assistant and private secretary. In the last years of her life Ira suffered from ill-health and was often confined to an Oakland sanitarium.She eventually died on the operating table in June of 1914. IDA's husband Jack Byrne continued in his Brother-In-Law employee until London's death in 1916. Material inscribed to Jack London's immediate family is exceedingly rare and appears for public sale very infrequently. Very slight lean. Minimal rubbing to covers and spine. Spine titles a bit faded. Corners gently bumped. Scattered mild foxing to prelims moderately so to inscription. One plate mis-paginated. Several page fore-edges trimmed short not affecting text. A Very Good well preserved crisp copy of a deeply personal relic of the London family. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
196236959NY:: Macmillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Biographical introduction by Willy Ley. Epilogue by Loren Eiseley. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An attractive well preserved copy. . Macmillan, hardcover books
190722231New York: Macmillan 1907. First edition. Original brown cloth spine a bit dulled but a very good copy with all the lettering and decoration intact. BAL 11903. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1907WRCLIT44498New York: Macmillan 1907. Light brown cloth stamped in red white grey and brown. Frontis and plates by C.L. Bull. Map. First published U.S. edition preceded by a copyright printing and the London edition. Spine a trace darkened and rubbed light foxing to endsheets but a good sound copy. BAL 11903. Macmillan hardcover books
1907WRCLIT38137New York: Macmillan 1907. Light brown cloth stamped in red white grey and brown. Frontis and plates by C.L. Bull. Map. First published U.S. edition preceded by a copyright printing and the London edition. Light offset on endsheets from jacket flaps not present a few slight flecks to cloth otherwise an unusually nice copy with only minimal rubbing to the spine stamping. BAL 11903. Macmillan hardcover books
1907000293New York: Macmillan and Company 1907. Faint traces of lengthy pencil nscription on half-title erased some foxing and browning including frontispiece and title-page. Eight color illustrations full-page including the frontispiece. 242pp. adverts. BAL 11903. First Edition. Brown Pictorial Cloth. Minor Corner Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. Macmillan and Company Hardcover books
1907165189New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co. 1907. Octavo pp. i-vi vii viii-xii 1-242 243-246: ads inserted two-page map eight inserted plates with illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull plus smaller illustrations by Bull in the text original pictorial light brown rough buckram front and spine panels stamped in dark brown red and white top edge stained tan fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First published edition preceded by a copyright printing. London's first SF novel in which he uses a favorite theme atavism as a device to project a consciousness into the past. "The hard realistic edge and controlled language make this one of London's best an important minor classic." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 144-48. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-106; 1981 1-115; 1987 1-58; 1995 1-58. Angenot and Khouri "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction" SFS VIII March 1981 45. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 514. Bleiler 1978 p. 125. Reginald 09140. BAL 11903. Neat Christmas 1912 gift inscription at top edge of front free endpaper. Hairline crack along inner rear hinge which is still holding tight a very good bright copy. #165189 The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co. unknown books
305715New York Council on Books in Wartime ca. 1945. Armed Services edition No. 1011. Oblong 16 mo. Original pictorial printed wrappers. Very good. 448 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Not located in BAL or Woodbridge. Soft cover. Very Good. New York, Council on Books in Wartime [ca. 1945]. paperback books
1920138731920. As Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews Chief Scout Librarian Boy Scouts of America. New York: The Macmillan Company 1920. Original light green-grey cloth. First Edition of this selection of a dozen earlier-published Jack London tales published four years after his death -- chosen for their appropriateness for reading by boy scouts. This rather uncommon 1920 first edition was published by London's usual publisher Macmillan; it was later also published by Grosset & Dunlap. Fine condition. Blanck 12009. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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
1910219461910. LONDON Jack. BURNING DAYLIGHT. An Absolutely New Serial of Thrill-ing Interest. Special Fiction Supplement Boston Sunday Post July 24 1910. Tabloid-size insert devoted solely to an installment of the novel BURNING DAYLIGHT published simultaneously in New York Herald. Not issued in book form until October 1910. This installment is Chapters XXII-XXVI. Quite brittle chipped at head of spine with tears at fore-edge. An extremely scarce format. unknown books
191027583New York: Macmillan 1910. First edition. Frontispiece and 7 inserted plates. pp.i-viii 1-361; blank p. 362; ads pp. 363-365 blank p. 366. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial blue cloth stamped in yellow and white. First edition. Frontispiece and 7 inserted plates. pp.i-viii 1-361; blank p. 362; ads pp. 363-365 blank p. 366. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL notes two printings; this copy corresponds to BAL's first in collation by signature but has the three final blank leaves which normally denote the second printing in which however the signatures are unsigned. Possibly an intermediate state. BAL 11918 Macmillan unknown books
1907830911907. LONDON Jack. THE CALL OF THE WILD. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. New York: Grosset & Dunlap June 1907. Fourteenth printing. 231 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in lighter green with pastedown illustration on front cover. Near fine a few pages roughly opened bright clean and tight. In good dust jacket with two 3 inch tears to froint panel edgwear tiny chips and nicks and publisher's advertisment on rear panel. unknown books
195007boldly accomplished entirely in his hand; cancellation perforations through "Jack" which is still legible San Francisco October 17 1911. 2 3/4" x 6 1/2". Check No. 460 in the amount of $25.00 drawn on the Merchants National Bank of San Francisco . Western Union Company Sonoma. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
500385and boldly accomplished in his hand Oakland CA February 27 1907. 2 3/4" x 6 1/2". Check in the amount of $32.00 . Charmain K. London his wife and signed by her on the verso. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
192223077Allentown: Allen R Cressman's Sons. 1922. Beautiful wooden cigar box with a striking full-color portrait of Jack London 1876-1916 on the inside of the top of the box repeated in a smaller version as a seal on the right edge of the top and right end itself. The left end has no special illustration which allows one to notice the thin ribbon with Jack London repeating on every edge of the box. The top has a decorated circle containing the authors name stamped in black and blind. The color portrait on the inside of the top shows a rolled manuscript over Londons right shoulder and an open book stacked on a closed book over Londons left shoulder. Beneath the portrait is Londons facsimile signature. All of these decorations-except for the portrait itself are embossed in gilt. ¶¶ The wooden front panels top edge is sealed with a color decorated small circle within which are four gilt embossed book covers i.e. small rectangles bearing the titles The Sea Wolf The Call of the Wild A Daughter of the Snowsand The Game. ¶¶ These are all early titles in Londons career as they were published between October 1902 and June 1905. Beneath the bottom of the seal on the front panel stamped in black and blind is Londres Extra.The bottom of the box bears a boxed 6-line legal statement stamped in black and headed Factory No 189 First DistrictPA. Green tax stamp affixed to front panel and box top at left side. 1922 Allen R Cressmans Sons PhiladelphiaA truly scarce Jack London collectible in very good condition but for faint pencilled figures at upper left corner of inside box top.; 8¼ x 5¾ x 2 3/8" . Allen R Cressman's Sons unknown books
133374Zaragoza Spain: Procucciones Garcia Ferre n.d. stiff paper wrappers. Miniature Books. miniature book 8.1 by 6.3 cm. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in Spanish. In a series of miniature books featuring noteworthy authors. Black and white illustrations. Procucciones Garcia Ferre) unknown books
195229686Hachette 1952. First French edition. 8vo pp. 191. Illustrated in color. In French. Paper over boards. Cover somewhat worn o/w VG. Tales of the South Seas in French translation. Hachette unknown books
197185083Oakland CA: The Holmes Book Company 1971. 16 ivp. wraps stated first edition front. Fine condition. The Holmes Book Company unknown books
1904429501904. LONDON Jack. THE FAITH OF MEN. London: William Heinemann 1904. First English edition. 8vo. red cloth boards and spine stamped in black and gilt. A fine copy with only slight wear at the extremities and light foxing throughout. BAL 11878. unknown books
1989TB22684n.p.: Westvaco Corporation 1989. Limited Edition. Near fine in marbled maroon cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine an embossed seal on the front board and with illustrated map end sheets. There is a long gift inscription on the second free end page. Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a fine paper covered slip case. The Christmas 1989 issue by Westvaco which is the 32nd volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series. 306 pages of text illustrated with black and white photographs. Westvaco Corporation hardcover books
1989020964Gastonia NC: Westvaco 1989. 309 1p. b/w illus. original burgundy cloth in the publisher's slipcase. Westvaco unknown books
1901229783Oakland California Published by the Class of June 1901. 1901. First edition thus. Oblong 4to. Illustrated with photographs. Original green cloth stamped in gilt hinge cracked. Very good. Unpaginated. Scarce. Jack London's first published work of fiction; a short tale in the dialect of a San Francisco street urchin is found on pages 45 47. The work was published first in the Aegis of February 15 1895 and again in the Aegis of May 9 1899 before the present publication. Printed at the Press of the Oakland Inquirer. Walker & Sisson 1. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oakland, California, Published by the Class of June, 1901. hardcover books
19899016570Westvaco Corp. 1989. hardcover. Fine. Bound in pebbled maroon cloth and enclosed in a printed paper covered slipcase. <br/><br/> Westvaco Corp. hardcover books
