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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
1903140938535New York: The Macmillan Company 1903. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's rubbed grey-blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Very Good or better with gilt stamping vert sharp light rubbing to cloth at extremities and front inner hinge slightly tender. A lovely copy of a book not typically found in such condition. The Macmillan Company unknown books
19038677New York. Macmillan. 1903. 1st Issue binding. Gilt and black lettered pictorial blue-grey cloth. t.e.g. 8vo. 1st Printing. Illustrated with photographs. BALL 11877: Sisson & Martens 15. Slight lean. Head and tailpieces rubbed. Corners bumped. A Very Good bright copy of this scarce title. Macmillan. hardcover books
1907180314001New York: The Macmillan Company 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. States "Set up and electrotyped. Published November 1907." on copyright page. Rare variant binding noted by BAL and Sisson & Martens with no gilt on cover or edges only two pages of ads at rear. xii 224 ii pp. Illustrated. Very Good no jacket. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. Black stamping rubbed cloth a little grubby bottom edge a bit worn. The Call of the Wild author's account of hopping freight trains across the USA in 1890 one of the best hobo books of all time. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
190727576New York: Macmillan 1907. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and 47 inserted plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gray cloth stamped in gold and black slightly soiled stain along outer edge of upper cover otherwise very good. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and 47 inserted plates. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 11906 Sisson/Martens 38 Macmillan unknown books
1915136681915. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Company 1915. 6 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth decorated in orange and yellow. First Edition of this unusual tale actually written some time earlier at about the same time as SMOKE BELLEW and THE NIGHT-BORN. He had just abandoned a book he called THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU as he was interrupted by the death of their newborn baby and he never returned to it. He then turned to THE SCARLET PLAGUE -- a haunting futuristic novel about the end of the world with San Francisco reduced to an archaeological site beside which an old man tells a group of young savages about the breakdown of society after the attack of an incurable plague. In one graceful reference Jack acknowledged his debt to Poe saying that some called the plague "The Red Death". Almost casually THE SCARLET PLAGUE ends in a hope of horses with a beautiful stallion and a small herd standing on the wild beach in the sunset. Sinclair This was at the time Jack and Charmian had renounced the big city one recently reduced to an archaeological site though by an earthquake in favor of their horse ranch in the Sonoma Valley. His love of horses was a major theme in another novel of the same period THE VALLEY OF THE MOON. Macmillan produced just over 5000 copies of this book relatively few for London's titles; it has become a rather scarce book vigilantly hunted by fantasy / science fiction collectors. This copy is very good-plus a touch of wear at the head of the spine but less fading of the spine than is usual for this maroon cloth . Sisson & Martens p. 80; Blanck 11960. unknown books
1915WRCLIT29454New York: Macmillan 1915. Brown cloth with pictorial stamping in shades of orange. Frontis and illus. by Gordon Grant. Very minor sunning to spine otherwise a near fine bright copy. First published edition preceded by a printing presumably intended for copyright purposes. "Undoubtedly London's best fantastic story told with considerable artistry and with less tub-thumping and breast-beating than usual" - Bleiler. BLEILER SF 1358. BAL 11960. Macmillan hardcover books
191540674New York: The Macmillan Company 1915. Octavo pp. 1-8 9 10 11-181 182: blank 183-188: ads 189-192: blank note: last two leaves are blanks illustrations by Gordon Grant original pictorial red-brown cloth front panel stamped in orange and yellow spine panel stamped in orange yellow and gold fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed decorated endpapers. First published edition preceded by a copyright printing. A world catastrophe novel in the tradition of Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN 1826 and M. P. Shiel's THE PURPLE CLOUD 1901. "Undoubtedly London's best fantastic story told with considerable artistry and with less tub-thumping and breast-beating than usual." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1358. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 1-60. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 517. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 142. Bleiler 1978 p. 126. Reginald 09150. BAL 11960. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1543. A fine copy. A stunning copy. Enclosed in open-face cloth slipcase. #40674 The Macmillan Company unknown books
1979TB23372Norwalk Conn.: The Easton Press 1979. Collector's Edition. Near fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. Some of the gilt filled embossing on the front and rear boards is deteriorating and missing. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7" containing 354 pages of text. Illustrated with drawings by Fletcher Martin and with an introduction by Edmund Gilligan. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. With the exception of the missing gilt on the front and rear boards this is a tight clean copy with no names dates notations or former owner's book plates. The Easton Press hardcover books
1941304126New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers ca. 1941. 1941. Movie edition. 8vo. Dust jacket with photographs of Edward G. Robinson unclipped; two short tears; few nicks; front free endpaper upper corner clipped. Very good. 321 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [ca. 1941]. hardcover books
192611080ELondon: Readers Library 1926. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the British release of the silent film of the classic London tale starring Milton Sills. Ownership signature and address and blindstamp. Very good lightly used copy in a bright dust jacket with a long tear across the front panel which has been repaired with tape on the interior and with a couple of other tiny tears and chips and one 1/4†piece missing along the spine fold. The front panel is a color painting of Sills as Wolf Larsen stripped to waist steering his ship with the rear panel illustrated with a painting of the ship being tossed by rough seas. Scarce. Readers Library unknown books
192612942ELondon: Readers Library 1926. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the British release of the silent film of the classic London tale starring Milton Sills. Near fine lightly used copy with a few tiny scuffed spots to the cloth on the front board in a bright dust jacket with a 1†narrow piece missing mid-spine and a shallow chip at the top of the spine. The front panel is a color painting of Sills as an exhausted and fiercely determined Wolf Larsen stripped to waist steering his ship with the rear panel illustrated with a painting of the ship being tossed by rough seas. Scarce. Readers Library hardcover books
190416006JNew York: Century Magazine January 1904. Original poster which is a handsome and complex image of a straining man on the disordered deck of a ship calling out to an unseen boat with the text: “Ahoy! Take me ashore! A thousand dollars if you take me ashore!†Underneath: “Jack London’s Great Novel. The Sea Wolf. Begins in the January Centuryâ€. Printed in deep rich reds greens and black & white a striking image 12†x 21â€. Small pinholes at top corners a couple tiny tears about fine. Scarce poster. Century Magazine unknown books
1979108838The Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut 1979. Special Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine collector's edition from The Easton Press. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin robbon book marker. Specially commissioned frontispiece portrait and decorative endpapers. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut hardcover books
190419183New York: The Macmillan Company 1904. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; publisher's light blue vertical-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in white on spine Blanck's 'B' binding and decorations stamped in ivory orange and navy blue on front panel; top edge gilt; 366 3pp ads; illustrated frontispiece with 5 black and white plates inserted. Hinges neatly repaired cloth lightly rubbed and soiled at extremities with gilt at top edge dulled and final plate present but detached; faint thumb-sized dampstain to lower edge of final 30pp; just Very Good. One of London's best-known adventure novels basis for numerous film adaptations including the classic 1941 Michael Curtiz film starring Edward G. Robinson John Garfield and Ida Lupino. BAL 11882. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1979243660Norwalk: Easton 1979. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin. 354pp. short 4to gilt-stamped crimson leather a.e.g. Easton Press 1979. Fine.<br/><br/> 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books
19799002191Norwalk: Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Fletcher Martin. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Illustrations by Fletcher Martin and an introduction by Edmund Gilligan. Bound in the publisher's original blue composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Five raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Easton Press hardcover books
