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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
1904JC10699New York / London: Macmillan 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine t.e.g.; 8vo; pp. 6 366 3 ads plus frontispiece and 5 plates. Boards a bit scuffed and bumped along the edges; contemporary ownership signature on FFEP. Binding a little shabby but internally nice and clean. <br/><br/> Macmillan 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
1926142662London: The Readers Library 1926. First printing of the UK photoplay edition originally published in 1904 by Macmillan. <br/><br/>Basis for the 1926 film directed by Ralph Ince who also starred in the film opposite Claire Adams. The third of a dozen film adaptations of London's novel. <br/><br/>Light foxing and rubbing to both book and jacket else Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. The Readers Library 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
19652312486New York: Airmont 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Wrappers creased minor tear to spine base pages lightly toned. 1965 Mass Market Paperback. 224 pp. Jack London's classic tale "The Sea-Wolf" is a story of a man who survives an ocean collision and comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen the sea captain who rescued him. Airmont paperback 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
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
1978174161978. Hardcover. VG. Green boards gilt design and lettering. 800 pp. Hundreds of color and bw plates. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Vol. I--Old Master Drawings Paintings and Medieval Miniatures; Vol. II--Works of Art Vol. III--Furniture and Porcelain; and Vol. IV--Impressionist and Modern Art. hardcover books
190717371New York: The Macmillan Company 1907. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . A handsome copy of the 1907 1st edition 1st issue with the gilt-titling to the front panel and spine AND the 4 pages of ads at the rear. Solid and VG in its decorative light-gray cloth with very light wear at the spine crown. Thick octavo 48 illustrations complementing the text most of them crisp black-and-white photos. London'e early experience as a hobo riding the rails. <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1907WN57720New York: The Macmillan Company 1907. Gray cloth with gilt lettering and black decorations. TEG. Wear on all edges and some soiling of cloth. Some foxing on page edges but internally clean and good. Library stamp blacked out on title page and ghost of pocket removal at rear endpaper. Pl. at pg. 100 missing. London's tales of hoboing and life on the road. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
1907BOOKS002261xii224 pages with 48 plates including frontispiece. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pictorial cover in black and gilt design with gilt lettering to spine and cover. 5360 copies published. This is part of London's autobiography BAL 11906 Sissions & Martens 37. First edition.<br /><br /><i>The Road</i> is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time.1 He describes his experiences hopping freight trains "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off begging for food and money and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary which he described as a place of "unprintable horrors" after being "pinched" arrested for vagrancy. In addition he recounts his time with Kelly's Army which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi River<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Inner hinges cracked spine ends and corners rubbed corners bumped stain on back board some internal soiling. Over all good to very good lacking dust wrapper. MacMillan and Company 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
16891420701689. pamphlet. 4 34; 1 32 pages. 2 volumes in one. Thin 4to modern wrappers. London: Richard Baldwin 1689. Some foxing and light contemporary marginalia still very good.<br/><br/> Wing STC R1515.<br/><br/> unknown books
184211063London: Charles Fox Pr. by W. Clowes & Sons 1842. 8vo. 49 1 blank pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2LON461. Disbound; early leaves separating. A good copy. Charles Fox (Pr. by W. Clowes & Sons) unknown books
1911138711911. With an Introduction by Jack London. Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1911. 12 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in red and black. First Edition first impression so stated. "The Black Cat" was a periodical headed by Umbstaetter to which unknown writers were invited to submit anonymous stories. To quote from Jack London's Introduction: He H.D. Umbstaetter made me possible. He saved my literary life if he did not save my literal life. And I think he was guilty of the second crime too. I had been attempting to write something marketable. Everything I possessed was in pawn and I did not have enough to eat. I was sick mentally and physically from lack of nourishment. I was at the end of my tether beaten out starved ready to go back to coal-shoveling or ahead to suicide. This is an attractive near-fine copy a few marks at the upper edge of the front cover. <br/><br/> hardcover books
169634541London: Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold by S. Keble. 1696. 4to. 4 35 1 blank 22 16 25-55 1 blank 55 1 65-126 pp. First leaf strengthened at margins light rubberstamp to title page light dusting and wear. Hole at one leaf affects several words. Good in modern green buckram title and call number stamped on spine in gilt.<br/> <br/> The Plea expresses the Corporation of London's determination to retain and if possible expand its freedoms despite the attempted encroachments of the King. <br/>ESTC R28154. Wing P2528. Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold by S. Keble... unknown books
1979777London 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 300 b/w illus. 8 plates in color. <br/><br/>One of the best references with comprehensive entrees on 234 photographers etc. hardcover books
1980113452.1Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown and Company 1980. Second. Hardbound. VG. Purple cloth lacking kacket if issued; 438 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw photos. Includes chapters about photo care and restoration exhibition catalogues photographers and more; Contains a glossary as well as appendices of museums and galleries daguerrotypists and photographers. New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown and Company unknown books
197950274Boston: NYGS 1979. First ed. Hardcover. 4to. x 438 pp. 300 b&w illustrations 8 color plates. Soft creaing to the first few leaves else a very good copy in a moderately worn dust jacket. Lee Witkin was a pioneer photographic gallerist in New York when collecting photography was just starting to emerge as a serious pursuit . An essential reference with entries for hundred of photographers which include biographies bibliographies exhibition lists and examples of their signatures and print values. <br/><br/> NYGS hardcover books