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191727864New York: The Macmillan Company 1917 1917. First edition. BAL 11972. Spine a trifle dull; edges very slightly rubbed; very good copy. 8vo original red brown cloth gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. Six pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. A collection of eight essays and sketches including two dramatic sketches published shortly after London's death in 1916. The title essay "The Human Drift" is London's treatise on the history of civilisation as a search for food. <br/><br/> New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917 unknown books
1917192307New York: Macmillan 1917. Hardcover. 184p. vi ads frontis-portrait offsetting to top margin of frontis and corresponding title page otherwise a very good first edition first printing in red cloth and gilt. Sisson page 92 BAL 11972. A collection of essays short stories and two plays; "A Wicked Woman" and "The Birth Mark" Published posthumously within 3 months of the author's death. Macmillan hardcover books
1910017357Toronto: The Macmillan Co. Of Canada Ltd 1910. First Canadian Edition. Octavo. 354pp. 4pp. ads at rear bound in green cloth lettered in black spine lettering gilt a remarkably fine bright copy. The Macmillan Co. Of Canada, Ltd unknown books
1908165188New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co. 1908. Octavo pp. i-iv v vi vii viii ix-xiv xv-xvi 1-354 355-358: ads 359-360: blank note: last leaf is a blank original dark blue cloth front panel stamped in gray gold and black spine panel stamped in gold fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. First published edition preceded by a copyright printing. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-107; 1981 1-116; 1987 1-59; 1995 1-59; and 2004 II-675. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1354. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 35. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 515. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 113-14. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 142. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 703. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 140. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III pp. 1068-72. Bleiler 1978 p. 126. Reginald 09147. BAL 11908. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1538. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-443. Hanna A Mirror for the Nation 2225. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954 p. 293. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips a bright very good copy. #165188 The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co. unknown books
1915WRCLIT38155London: Mills & Boon 1915. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Frontis. First edition preceding the U.S. edition. Edgeworn ink name and modest soiling to endleaves some finger smudging. Just an average sound copy of a cheaply made book. BAL 11962. Mills & Boon hardcover books
1915165369London: Mills & Boon 1915. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2-333 334: printer's imprint 335-336: ads 1-32: ads note: the 32 pages of ads are signatures 22 and 23 and are not an inserted catalogue inserted color frontispiece original green cloth front panel ruled in blind spine panel stamped in gold bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition first printing with "Published 1915" on copyright page. The British edition preceded the U.S. edition. The British edition was deposited in the British Library 4 August 1915 and was listed as "ready" in Athenaeum 7 August 1915. The U.S. edition titled THE STAR ROVER was published by Macmillan in October and a copy was received by the Boston Athenaeum 14 October 1915. The story of a university professor who murders a colleague and is put into solitary confinement at San Quentin where he learns via self-hypnosis to explore his previous incarnations. "Possibly the most curious of London's novels. . Some of the phantasmagoric episodes have considerable power. The book reveals an unexpected side of Jack London. Not only was he the victim of poverty in his youth as his concern for social justice might suggest he was the illegitimate son of a spiritualist and an astrologer." - T. Collins in Smith ed Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers 1981 p. 343. "The book could be placed in the same sub-genre as Arnold's PHRA THE PHOENICIAN Armour's SO FAST HE RAN Mason's THE THREE GENTLEMEN and others. Historical fiction almost always means a novel set in a single continuous period. The device of following a soul's reincarnations through different periods affords the author a new dimension of character development. It also lets the writer concatenate short historical fictions employing more variety of background while maintaining the genre's usual sense of 'sweep' -- not with a horizontal exploration through space but a vertical exploration through time shifting the focus from the society to the individual." - Robert Eldridge. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-110 and 1981 1-119. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-223. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1031. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 518. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 142. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 674. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V pp. 2159-62. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 126. Reginald 09153. BAL 11962. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1544. Slight spine lean a bright nearly fine copy. An attractive much better than average copy of a book rarely found in nice condition. #165369 Mills & Boon 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
1916RLONLIT00HMRMacMillan 1916. Very Good. London Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. New York: MacMillan 1916. 1st edition. 392pp. Petite 8vo. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges. In acetate book protector. Charming color frontispiece. MacMillan 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
1916019326New York NY: Macmillan Company 1916. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 392 pages of text followed by vi pages of publisher's advertisement. Original decorative blue cloth binding with illustration on front cover and the spine. The gilt is bright and there is only minor shelfwear; protected in fitted archival mylar. The inner hinges are slightly weakened. No dustjacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. The first printing with the date on the title page and copyright page stating April 1916. Previous owner's names on the inside front cover and front flyleaf. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1950ULONMUT00HMRArcadia House 1950. Very Good. London Jack. The Mutiny of the Elsinore. New York: Arcadia House 1950. 378pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges and faintly browned endsheets. Arcadia House unknown books
1914126851914. London: Mills & Boon 1914. 432 pp ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition. This tale serialized as "Sea Gangsters" involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons' problems with the tropics per the theories he had read in Woodruff's EFFECTS OF TROPICAL LIGHT ON WHITE MEN. Jack wrote THE ELSINORE soon after he and Charmian returned from his "Millergraph" trip to New York City; their five-month return was on the clipper ship "Dirigo" out of Baltimore around Cape Horn in mid-1912. His last acts on shore were to shave his head bald and to have a photograph taken of himself standing by Poe's grave. Since there was no alcohol on board Jack went through withdrawal from his dependence upon it and proclaimed that he was not an alcoholic -- though Charmian knew that would last only until the pain in his kidneys and bowels would again become unbearable.Sinclair Jack with major gastrointestinal problems of his own watched the ship's captain slowly die of stomach cancer during the voyage. Charmian became pregnant again but soon after they arrived back in Glen Ellen she miscarried -- confirming Jack's fear that he would have no son and heir for the ranch. And so began Jack's new "period of disgust." This is the English edition bearing the same 1914 date as the New York edition but published four months later in January 1915 and containing the same dramatic color frontispiece. The reason the American edition has a detailed colorful binding and the English one does not is that England was already at war. Excepting that the volume is slightly askew this is a fine copy. See Sisson & Martens p. 78 and Blanck 11956. <br/><br/> 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
017359London 1915: Mills & Boon Limited. First British Edition. Octavo. 306pp. 311pp. ads at rear color frontispiece bound in green cloth spine lettering gilt minor wear to head and corners. A very good copy. The story of a sailing voyage from Baltimore to Seattle east-to-west around Cape Horn in the dead of winter. Mills & Boon, Limited unknown books
1914000439New York: Macmillan Company 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo. Lettering and picture of ship on front board clear but with loss to the blue in particular. Spine lettering nearly completely rubbed out with only faint impression. Minor soilage to yellow boards otherwise. Pages inside generally clean. Slightest looseness to front hinge but book otherwise tight. Good or better overall. <br/><br/> Macmillan Company 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
1914WRCLIT38153New York: Macmillan 1914. Pictorial orange cloth stamped in grey blue gilt and white. Frontis. First edition. Blue spine background largely flaked away some soiling to lower board lower fore- corner torn from final leaf of text costing a letter or two. Just good and sound. BAL 11956. Macmillan hardcover books
19143717New York: Macmillan 1914. First edition. Original orange cloth stamped in blue white and gilt. Blue on spine rubbed as usual a very good copy. BAL 11956. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1913126841913. New York: The Century Company 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of ten short stories. In addition to the title story the volume includes "The Madness of John Harned" "Bunches of Knuckles" and "To Kill a Man." This was the second of four books in a row published by Century after Jack had strayed from Macmillan on his trip to New York a year earlier. He had business in New York with the Millergraph investment he had bought into the invention of a new lithographic process which promptly went awry and he took Charmian there in the winter of 1911. It was the worst time of her marriage. He abandoned her most of the time in an apartment on Morningside Heights while he roistered night and day round the city with. a pack of friends. He stopped writing and drank heavily unable to resist the lure of being a literary lion. He went to boxing matches he spent the nights on Broadway or with chorus girls. Sinclair It was in this frame of mind that Jack marched into Macmillan and demanded that his royalty be increased from 15% to 20% -- and wound up with Century instead. This copy is in the primary binding lettering in gilt with totem poles in black; it has only one blank leaf at the rear other than the endpaper which is "presumed" by bibliographers to indicate the first state. It is an unusually bright copy fine except for minor natural wrinkling of the spine cloth; this is a Decorative Designers binding. Sisson & Martens p. 68; Blanck 11942. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1913RLONNIG00MELCentury Co. 1913. Good. London Jack. The Night-Born and also Madness of John Harned When the World Was Young Benefit of the Doubt Winged Blackmail Bunches of Knuckles War Under the Deck Awnings To Kill a Man Mexican. New York: Century Co. 1913. First edition second issue. 290pp. 12mo. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges light soiling to covers edges of text block and endsheets chipping to spine ends with a tiny loss to head and a stain to fore edge of text block. Century Co. unknown books
1913191716New York: The Century Co 1913. Hardcover. 290p. i ad color frontis small neat ownership name in ink on front free endpaper light foxing to endpapers good first edition first printing in gary-blue cloth and gilt with black ink totems on front cover gilt on spine faded mild shelfwear. Sisson page 68 BAL11942. Includes an Edgar Rice Burroughs-influenced California fantasy and "The Mexican The Century Co hardcover 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
1986305037Orinda Privately Printed 1986. 1986. First separate edition. 8vo. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Original stitched tan wrappers. Very good-fine. 12 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 150 copies printed as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs October 1986. This copy with original mailing envelope. Soft cover. Very Good. Orinda, Privately Printed [1986]. paperback books
1926245370Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa 1926. Magazine. pp. 129-164 complete issue wraps with cleric edges slightly creased else very good condition. Contents: Trampin with Kelly through Iowa Jack London and Comment the editor John Ely Briggs. The State Historical Society of Iowa unknown books
