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191423985New York: Macmillan 1914. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Aqua cloth stamped in white gold and black on spine and front cover; i-viii 1-257 5pp. Frontispiece illus. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges; scattered foxing to title page and prelims; Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of seven stories including the socialist utopian romance "The Dream of Debs." WOODBRIDGE 121. BAL 11955. Macmillan unknown books
1920143608Girard: Appeal to Reason 1920. 46p. plus ads staplebound 5 x 3.25 inch wraps moderately worn with some browning. People's pocket series no. 148. BAL 11931 reprint history discussed on p. 445 of vol. 5. Appeal to Reason unknown books
1924138609Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company 1924. 32p. staplebound 3.5x5 inch wraps; "Literature" typed at right margin on cover. Little blue book no. 148. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
1914WRCLIT28579New York: Macmillan 1914. Light blue cloth lettered in white and decorated in gilt and dark blue. Frontis. First edition. Spine stamping particularly the imprint at toe a bit rubbed mild dust soiling to cloth but otherwise a very good tight bright copy. BAL 11955. Macmillan hardcover books
191195359Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative 1911. Octavo pp. 1-3 4-29 30-32: ads original cream pictorial wrappers printed in blue illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck on front and rear panels. First edition later printing with text ending on page 29 and publisher's address in the advertisements given as "341-349 E. Ohio St." Short story first published in HAMPTON'S MAGAZINE March 1911 later collected in THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG 1914. "The Strength of the Strong" 1911 "completes the group of science fiction stories that grew out of London's interest in evolutionary racism and it can also serve to introduce the other principle dimension of London's scientific thought - his theory of revolutionary socialism. This caveman story is an allegory that slyly pays tribute to Kipling 'Lip-King' in its epigraph. A prehistoric parable it recreates the race's discovery of group solidarity and it is also an illustration in fiction of the theories proposed by the single most important influence on London's intellectual development Benjamin Kidd. Kidd was an Anglo-Saxon supremacist who tried to portray socialism as the next stage in Anglo-Saxon history a stage that would allow the Anglo-Saxon to manage the world for its own good. Kidd's reconciliation of racism and socialism made his ideas invaluable to London" Richard Gid Powers. Angenot and Khouri "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction" SFS VIII March 1981 45. BAL 11931. See Bleiler 1978 p. 126. See Reginald 09154. A fine copy. Uncommon in this condition. #95359 Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative unknown books
19128159baChicago IL: Charles H. Kerr 1912. Book. Good condition. Paperback. First thus edition. Tall 12mo. American literature; socialism; fiction; 29 pages; 2p. The Internatinal Socialist Review; 19.2cm; original pictorial paper wrapper taped; ad back wrapper; reprinted from Hampton magazine. Tape on front wrapper at top corner 3" long and 1/4" wide; on spine the full length 7 1/2" and just under 1/2" wide. The verso of the front cover is also taped similarly but wider. A few tiny tears to the fore-edge of the wrapper and minor soiling. If there was issued a grey wrapper on the reverse it is now lacking. A pair of holes from a staple at the top edge of wrapper and title page. Corners of the first and last few leaves are slightly rubbed. Text is clean. Tape is likely not removable. No month of publication nor issue number given. Copyright date on the publishers page is 1911 and the publication date on the title page is 1912 which suggests that this might be an early 1912 issue. Attractive front wrapper with red lettering and picture; of a North American Indian sitting titled "Days and Nights the Eyes of the Tribe Watched." Jack London 1876-1916. Charles H. Kerr Paperback books
1916RLONTUR00MELMacmillan Company 1916. Very Good. London Jack. The Turtles of Tasman. New York: Macmillan Company 1916. Second printing. 265pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges and gently bumped spine ends. Macmillan Company unknown books
1916180219004New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Very Good. Stamping on front cover lightly rubbed cloth lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Pages a bit toned and lightly thumbed. First edition. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1916TB29380New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. First Edition. Good in its original brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with light yellow and gilt text on the front board over a black illustration of a palm tree with a setting sun in the background. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine lightly worn four small blotches of what appears to be white paint on the spine some of the white text on the front board is rubbed and there is a prior owner's name and date of "Nov. 3 1916" at the upper edge of the first free end page. 268 pages of text followed by five pages of ads for other books by London. BAL 11968; Sissen/Martens p90 The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1916137631916. New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. 5 pp undated ads. Original mauve cloth pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition which consisted of 5914 copies -- far fewer than many of London's earlier works. Jack spent most of 1915 and early 1916 on two extended trips to Hawaii and the eight tales of this collection were written there. During this time Jack reached out to his estranged fifteen-year-old daughter Joan appealing to her to start getting to know him via the mails since he knew his ex-wife had forbidden their daughters to meet Charmian. The title story is a fantasy "in which a dark-eyed flashing daughter came back to a ranch with her dying father in order to hear his stories of adventure and to light his cigars until he passed away in peace" Sinclair. The titles of the final two tales of the book are further indication that Jack knew his days were numbered: "Finis" and "The End of the Story." Jack London died about a month after TURTLES was published. This is an attractive book decorative trade binding by "G.H." in near-fine condition light rubbing at the extremities. In our experience this is a rather scarce title especially in decent condition. Sisson & Martens p. 90; Blanck 11968. unknown books
19162159124New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition one of 5914 copies BAL 11968. Minimal wear to corners small smudge and some scuffing on spine resulting in minor loss of color from palm tree decoration. 1916 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 268 pp. 8vo. 5 pages of publisher ads bound in following text. Eight short works written in Hawaii published a few months before London's death. The title of the final two stories in the collection may indicate that London knew his life was coming to a close soon. Includes: By the Turtles of Tasman; The Eternity of Forms; Told in the Drooling Ward; The Hobo and the Fairy; The Prodigal Father; The First Poet; Finis; The End of the Story. New York: The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1916WRCLIT28578New York: Macmillan 1916. Pictorial mauve cloth stamped in navy blue cream and orange. First edition. Cloth very slightly rubbed a few foxmarks to fore-edge endsheets very slightly tanned otherwise a very good tight copy. BAL 11968. Macmillan hardcover books
191616889NY: Macmillan 1916. First edn. 8vo pp. 268 adv. Bound in mauve cloth stamped in yellow orange and blue. A little light soiling on the cover and nick at the extremities of the spine o/w a near fine copy. Sisson/Martens p. 90; BAL 11968. Macmillan unknown books
19481606NY: Random House 1948. First Edition. Large 8vo Pp. 542. A very good copy. BAL Section III p. 463. Also includes work by Howard Pyle Frank Stockton J. C. Harris A. B. Paine Palmer Cox Bret Harte Rackham etc. Random House unknown books
4102To "Comrade Tuck" London references his writings commenting on the fact that he hadn't lectured in a while and suggesting he organize a talk around his answer to Kipling's attack on Socialism. In part "Do you remember Kipling's attack in parable upon Socialism The Bee-Hive parable. I have written a reply to it in the form of a parable. It has been refused by practically every magazine. soon to be published by HAMPTON'S MAGAZINE. entitled THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG." "The Strength of the Strong" was published in "Hampton's Magazine" Volume 26 March 1911 and later published in book form by Macmillan in 1914. Kipling's attack on socialism in the form of a political parable about bees was first published in "Collier's Weekly" in the United Stated on November 281908 under the title "The Mother Hive" and in the United Kingdom as the "Adventures of Melissa" for "Windsor Magazine" December 1908. In his parable Kipling argued for the need to recognize socialism as an attack against the future of the British Empire and defend against such false progressive ideas. Slightly faded with margin tear to one fold at top not affecting text and two small holes at intersection of vertical and horizontal folds slightly affecting one word. Jack London was a socialist and member of the radical literary group ‘The Crowd' in San Francisco supporting worker's rights and unionization. He became a socialist in 1894 and wove his political perspective into his writings and lectures. Our letter to H.C. Tuck gives evidence to London's political orientation. Referred to here as "Comrade Tuck" Tuck was a socialist leader editor and State Secretary of the Socialist Party of California. In 1910-11 Tuck was arrested for libel having printed some apparently libelous material in various newspaper articles. In 1910 the year he wrote our letter to Tuck London's "Burning Daylight" as well as "Revolution and Other Essays" "Lost Face" and "Theft: A Play in Four Acts" were all published. That same year saw the birth of his daughter and her untimely death just 36 hours later. It was also in 1910 that London purchased the Kohler & Frohling ranch. I. unknown books
1911146811911. trading in the Solomons One page on "Harbor Rest" stationery dated by ink-stamp July 9 1911. With London's name and address "Glen Ellen Calif." in holograph plus his signature at the end of the letter. The text of this letter we apologize for repeating Jack's language! is: Dear sir:- In reply to yours of recent date. Please don't forget that if tobacco was dreadfully wanted was rarely brought was quickly used and gone etc. that not only pennies but sovereigns and any and all other purchasing mediums would be sedulously accumulated against the day when more tobacco was purchasable. You speak of logic. Nevertheless logically when you grant the cheapness of sovereigns compared with pennies during the course of the first trading then you must grant that in the course of the second trading between the coast niggers and the interior tribes the same ratio will obtain. The interior tribes will hold on to the pennies and dispose of the sovereigns just as the coast niggers did with the white men in the first instance. There are several more ways of looking at it but I shall not burden you. Thank you for your good letter. I love to receive criticisms -- especially when I think I can get back at the other fellow! Sincerely yours signed Jack London Jack wrote this letter during the time in 1911 when he and Charmian were moored in Humboldt Bay on the "Harbor Rest" the house-boat belonging to the former mayor of Eureka H.L. Ricks. They would leave Humboldt Bay four days after Jack wrote this letter heading for Hoopa and the Klamath River ultimately north to Crescent City. There is a great photo at the Huntington of Jack and Charmian posing on board the "Harbor Rest" complete with the boat's name-plate. The recipient was a Boston doctor whose office was on Tremont Row there. We do not know exactly what Dr. Brittain wrote Jack about but it was most likely a "criticism" he had after reading Jack's new book that had just come out the preceding month THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK. This book was the account of Jack and Charmian's voyage aboard their boat The Snark begun in 1907 and planned to last seven years around the world -- but Jack's medical and financial problems cut it short in 1909 after cruising to Hawaii the Solomon Islands Fiji Tahiti and winding up in a hospital in Sydney. Specifically in that book Jack wrote about using the tobacco they had brought to barter for goods on some of the islands see page 289 for an example in the Solomons. Jack's use of "the n-word" was unfortunately not unusual at the time and was especially used by explorers of the South Pacific and of Australia. Our favorite line of the letter is the final one -- revealing Jack's irritation that some doctor in Boston considers himself able to criticize something he knows little about. Like this letter the majority of Jack London's letters were typed. The letter is in very good condition -- with faint evidence at the edges of it having being mounted and with a 1.5-inch tear along an original fold right between "Jack" and "London. unknown books
1923107539Prague: B. Koci 1923. quarter cloth marbled paper-covered boards. 12mo. quarter cloth marbled paper-covered boards. 142 144 157 pages. 3 volumes in one. Second Prague edition. Woodbridge London and Tweney 127. Text in Czech. Translation by Marie Masková of Jack London's The Mutiny of the Elsonore. Xerox copy of above-cited bibliography laid in. Spine faded; top of spine torn. Boards scuffed. Bookplate partially removed on front pastedown. B. Koci unknown books
1905128821905. New York: The Macmillan Company 1905. 3 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth. First Edition which consisted of only 2530 copies -- fewer copies than any known printing of all earlier Jack London books except his first book THE SON OF THE WOLF 2028 copies. By contrast THE CALL OF THE WILD consisted of 71584 copies and THE SEA-WOLF consisted of 63337 copies. The book consists of seven essays on socialism. Much of the content derived from London's earlier trip to Europe after hanging around the London slums London had sallied off to Paris and Rome where he hobnobbed with the socialists in each city. To quote from London's preface: It is the hope of the writer that the socialistic studies in this volume may in some slight degree enlighten a few capitalistic minds. The capitalist must learn first and for always that socialism is based not upon the equality but upon the inequality of men. This is a near-fine copy slightly faded on the spine as usual but otherwise just a little rubbing at the very tips. Quite an uncommon London title. Sisson & Martens p. 22; Blanck 11885. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1905WRCLIT29458New York: Macmillan 1905. Plum cloth lettered in gilt. First edition of London's most extended articulation of his personal and curious melding of socio- political influences. Rear inner hinge cracking slightly extremities rubbed but a good-very good sound copy. BAL 11885. Macmillan hardcover books
1987117889Oceanside CA: Posthorn Press 1987. marbled paper covered boards paper spine label. Miniature Books. miniature book 7.3 x 7.4 cm. marbled paper covered boards paper spine label. 16 pages. Limited to 150 copies signed by the printer John F. Dingman Bradbury Posthorn 1. Dingman has also added commentary. The only miniature title listed by Bradbury under this private press. Posthorn Press unknown books
29690Berlin: Begweiser-Verlag. Small 8vo pp. 96. In German. Paper covered boards three-quarter green leather. Cover little worn interior nice. The Call of the Wild in German. Begweiser-Verlag unknown books
143607Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company no date. 54 VIIIp. staplebound 5 x 3.25 inch wraps moderately worn with some browning. Ten cent pocket series no. 30. BAL 11900 reprint F. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
143606Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company no date. 54 VIIIp. staplebound 5 x 3.25 inch wraps mild browning and handling. Ten cent pocket series no. 30. BAL 11900 reprint F. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
1911374151911. FE. LONDON Jack. WHEN GOD LAUGHS. New York: Macmillan Company 1911. First edition 3758 copies printed. 8vo. olive cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in lighter olive and red. Mild skewing dulling of spine wear at spine ends and corners. Still overall this copy is very good. unknown books
191160938New York: The Regent Press. Very Good. 1911. Hardcover. Early Reprint First was Macmillan 1911. Front hinge is cracked front cover loosening. 319pp. foxing cover edges and spine are scuffed and rubbed spine sunned. Good. . The Regent Press hardcover books
