With Numerous Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in brown and lettered in red and white. First Edition of this odd novel written several years earlier, not long after THE CALL OF THE WILD, during London's.....
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.....
With Illustrations and Decorations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 6 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white and brown. First Edition, which consisted of 26,420 copies. In this prizefighting tale, Joe Fleming tries to convince his fiancée to accept his.....
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.....
["To Build a Fire"] Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light green, white and orange. First Edition of this collection of seven tales, which consisted of fewer than 7,000 copies (compared to over 70,000 copies of THE CALL OF.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and cream. First Edition, consisting of 7,973 copies, of this collection of eight tales. He needed the money badly, for he had overspent his income to satisfy his various desires. As well as paying.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 10 pp undated ads. Original red-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book, published about six months after JERRY OF THE ISLANDS. Though both books were written by Jack in Honolulu as cash-raising hackwork, MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRY was a......
London: Mills & Boon, (1914). [4]+32 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.....
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 8 pp undated ads. Original orange cloth decorated in blue and grey. First 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'.....
Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 2 pp undated ads. Original light grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition, which consisted of only 5,360 copies -- one of the smaller printings of a Jack London first edition. Many of the illustrations are actual photographs. THE ROAD harkens back to.....
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven socialistic tales. Two of them, "The Dream of Debs" and "South of the Slot," he had written years earlier just after the San Francisco.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 5 pp undated ads. Original mauve cloth pictorially decorated in dark grey 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.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 4 pp undated ads. Original light blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in white and black. First Published Edition of London's famous tale about a savage half-wolf/half-dog in the Yukon who becomes domesticated -- a complementary volume to THE CALL OF THE WILD (1903), which followed.....
Illustrated. A Chronological Reference Guide. Oakland CA: Star Rover House, 1979. Original pictorial cloth. First Edition, consisting of 1000 copies, of the only Jack London bibliography to include photographs of the front cover and spine, the title page, and the copyright page of every entry. This is a fine, bright.....
![Item #14968 THE BOOK OF JACK LONDON. [In Two Volumes.]. Jack London, Charmian London](/pictures/thumb/14968.jpg?v=1648055702)
[both vols. inscribed by Charmian] Illustrated with Photographs. New York: The Century Co., 1921. Original green cloth. First Edition of Charmian London's personal biography, copiously illustrated with photographic plates, of her husband who had died five years earlier. Quoting from her Preface, Here I give to the world my Jack London.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition (published on the same day as the London edition and the Leipzig edition) of these two plays in verse form -- "John Endicott" sited in 1665 Boston and "Giles Corey" in 1692 Salem. This copy is in.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition (English -- this and the American edition came out simultaneously on September 6, 1873). Quoting from William Dean Howells's review in the November 1873 Atlantic Magazine, In Aftermath, we have.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Original bright green cloth decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition. This is actually what Longfellow considered to be Part I of a trilogy, the other two parts of which had already been published. It had to do with Cristendom through the ages --.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition, first printing. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan). The.....
![Item #15194 THE POETICAL WORKS. Illustrated. [In Two Volumes.]. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](/pictures/thumb/15194.jpg?v=1678477860)
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 (Vol I) and Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880 (Vol II). Original full brown morocco elaborately stamped in black, front covers with harp design and lettering in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, decorative gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. The sumptuous "Subscription.....
[with tipped-in signature] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 4 pp preliminary ads dated December 1849. Original drab paper-covered boards with printed spine label. First Edition of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes with the famous apostrophe to the.....
![Item #14105 THE SEABOARD PARISH [signed by MacDonald]. In Three Volumes. George MacDonald](/pictures/thumb/14105.jpg?v=1576082767)
[signed by George MacDonald] London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. Original maroon cloth decorated in gilt (portraying medieval-style external book hinges). First Edition. This is the second novel in MacDonald's "Marshmallows Trilogy" -- the other two being ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD (Hurst & Blackett 1867) and THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER (Tinsley 1872.....
Derby: printd by Harpur and Murray at the Moray Press in May 1894 and sold by Frank Murray at his Bookshops in Derby Leicester and Nottingham. Original flexible boards covered with glazed grey-green paper elaborately decorated in gilt. First Edition (trade issue -- there were also 75 numbered/signed copies), published.....
London: Constable & Co., (1923). Original brown paper boards with buff cloth spine and red leather spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition of Katherine Mansfield's verse, collected by her husband John Middleton Murry and published just ten months after her death by tuberculosis at age 34. The verse is.....
London: Constable & Co., (1924). Original grey cloth stamped in violet, with dust jacket. First Edition, second and usual issue (a very few copies, once pegged at 34 in number, were first issued without the "First Published, 1924" on the title page verso). Knopf's American edition, published the same year.....
