LONDON JACKABAA
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1911290221911. LONDON Jack. ADVENTURE. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1911. True first edition preceding American. 8vo with color frontispiece. Green cloth. Boards just bowed slight wear to extremes. A very good fresh copy. Scarce. BAL 11927. unknown books
191127600London: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1911. First edition. Color frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth spine stamped in white and gilt. First edition. Color frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Precedes the American edition by a month. BAL 11927 Thomas Nelson & Sons unknown books
191164417New York: The Macmillan Company. Good. 1911. Hardcover. 405 pages plus ads red cloth with faded cream colored stamping. Covers are scuffed with rubbed spine ends and corners cover lettering and design has faded. Contents are bright and complete. A Good copy. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1911WRCLIT28577New York: Macmillan 1911. Pictorial blue cloth stamped in cream-white. First U.S. edition primary binding preceded by the London edition issued a month or two earlier. Crown of spine slightly frayed imprint at toe of spine rubbed but otherwise a very good tight copy. BAL 11928. SMITH L-431. Macmillan hardcover books
1916267054N.p. 1916. First edition second issue with rubber stamp of Navy Recruiting Station Minneapolis Minn. Single sheet folded. 4 pp. 1 vols. 7 x 4 inches. Small loss at outer margin else fine. First edition second issue with rubber stamp of Navy Recruiting Station Minneapolis Minn. Single sheet folded. 4 pp. 1 vols. 7 x 4 inches. Jack London's denial of authorship of pamphlets circulating under the title The Good Soldier Advice to the Young Soldier etc. "The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier." With an extensive two-column note in BAL. "It must be observed that the sentiments set forth in the advice are indeed not contrary to London's beliefs his denials notwithstanding" BAL.<br/><br/>Uncommon. BAL 11967; Jack London: A Bibliography 1058 unknown books
1912WRCLIT40014Paris: Felix Juven 1912. Printed wrappers. First edition in French translated by P. Dehesdin with a prefatory extract by Paul Bourget. Light scattered foxing wraps darkened and lightly worn but a good copy. Felix Juven paperback books
1962ULONBEF00EFMacmillan 1962. Very Good. London Jack. Before Adam. New York: Macmillan 1962. 172pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 1/4 orange and yellow cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges and light moisture stains. Rear board is slightly bowed. A few pages lightly spotted. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped and chipped edges and small losses from head of panels. Rear panel is lightly rippled and backstrip slightly faded. Price clipped. Macmillan hardcover 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
4416NY MACMILLAN 1962. FIRST EDITION THUS FINE. F. NY, MACMILLAN, 1962 unknown books
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
