JOHN BARLEYCORN.
NY: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Original dark green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, octavo, 343pp. 8 b/w plates by H. T. Dunn. Suggested first issue with 2 blank leaves at rear. BAL 11946, Sisson/Martens page 72. More
NY: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Original dark green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, octavo, 343pp. 8 b/w plates by H. T. Dunn. Suggested first issue with 2 blank leaves at rear. BAL 11946, Sisson/Martens page 72. More
NY: Century Co, 1913. First edition. Original dark green cloth with title and decoration in gilt, octavo, 343 pp. 8 b/w plates by H. T. Dunn. Suggested first issue with 2 blank leaves at rear. BAL 11946, Sisson/Martens page 72. More
Boston: Perry Mason Co., 1899. First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial tabloid wrappers, 11.5 x 16.25 inches, Illustrated. Wrappers separated at spine fold, else clean and unworn. This story was uncollected until 1993 and its inclusion in "The Complete Short Stories of Jack London" published by Stanford University Press. Woodbridge 696;..... More
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1916). First printing of the G & D edition. Mustard brown pictorial cloth decorated in gray, black, and red. Gilt lettering on front cover, red lettering on spine, 392 pp + (2) pp ads. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. In pictorial dustjacket with color illustration duplicating..... More
Boston: Perry Mason Co., 1901. First edition, first printing. Paperback. Original pictorial tabloid wrappers, 11.5 x 16.25 inches, Illustrated. Light general wear, short tears to fore-edge, still near fine. Complete magazine with all pages, illustrations, advertisements, etc. This story was uncollected until 1922 and its inclusion in "Dutch Courage and..... More
NY: S.S. McClure Co., 1900. First edition, first printing. Original printed wrappers. Complete magazine with all pages, illustrations, advertisements, etc. First publication of an early story collected the following year in London's second book, "God of His Fathers." In her "Book of Jack London" Charmian London writes that the story..... More
NY: Cosmopolitan Magazine, October, 1907. First printing. Original pictorial wrappers. This piece was part of the Cosmopolitan series variously titled "My Life in the Underworld" or "Stray Memories of Life in the Underworld." Also in this issue is Ambrose Bierce’s column of commentary, "Small Contributions." "The Road" was published in..... More
NY: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Original greenish blue pictorial cloth with orange lettering and seascape and volcano in blue and orange, octavo, 229 pp. Front cover lightly soiled, else very good. Seven stories of Hawaii. 4,972 copies issued. BAL 11891, Sisson/Martens page 102. More
San Francisco: Overland Monthly Publishing Co., 1899. First edition. 2 volumes, rebound in half morocco and brown cloth (Vol. 33) and half morocco and marbled boards (Vol. 34). Vol. 33 bound with original front wrappers from each issue but not rear wrapper or advertisements; Vol. 34 bound with front and..... More
Boston: Perry Mason Co., 1900. First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial tabloid wrappers, 11.5 x 16.25 inches, Illustrated. Moderate staining and general wear, but complete and presentable. An uncollected anecdote of survival in the Klondike illustrating the power of perserverance. Woodbridge 737. More
NY: Century Co., January 1904. First printing. Original printed wrappers, 7 x 10 inches. Complete magazine. Attractive cover design in olive, cream, and maroon is devoted to advertising The Sea Wolf. This story illustrated with 1 b/w plate by W.J. Aylward. The Macmillan book publication was October, 1904. Also in..... More
New York: The Independent, 1906. First printing. Original printed wrappers. London's somnabulists are the complacent politicians, statesmen, intellectuals, captains of industry, etc., who dismiss the plight of the "lower classes" - sleepwalking through their unquestioned acceptance of an exploitive economic system. His essay is a scathing indictment of the status..... More
Boston and NY: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1900). Early reprint (unrecorded). Hardcover. Bright green pictorial cloth with title and illustration of trapper and dog outlined in cream; octavo; (252) pp followed by blank leaf. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. Moderate rubbing to cover design, minor wear to edges of covers, but..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930. Riverside Library edition. Hardcover. [4], 251 pp.; octavo, red cloth with gilt titles, pictorial jacket. Woodbridge bibliography suggests 1930 as the date for the first printing in the Riverside Library. More
Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. Original greenish-black cloth with silver belt design and lettering in silver and greenish-black, octavo, (252) pp. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. Second issue collation per BAL 11869, Sisson & Martens page 2. Second issue ampersand in publisher's imprint on spine..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover. vi, 329 pp.; octavo, red cloth with gilt spine title, jacket. This reprint not listed in Woodbridge. More
Chicago: All Fiction Field, 1947. First thus. Original pictorial wrappers with colorful cover art by Virgil Finlay. This reprint not in Woodbridge. Originally published serially in the Los Angeles Examiner, American Sunday Monthly Magazine, Feb. 14 - Oct. 10, 1914. The first book publication was the London, Mills & Boon..... More
London: Mills & Boon, (1930). Twenty-second edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth lettered in black, octavo, 530 pp. + publisher's 16-page catalog at rear. This romantic novel recounts in a fictional the story of Jack and Charmian London's discovery of the idyllic Sonoma Valley - the Valley of the Moon -..... More
San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co. Passenger Dep't, 1909. First edition thus. Original pictorial wrappers. Originally published in 1909 in "Times Magazine" (New York) and "Lady's Realm" (London). The Sunset Magazine printing includes 2 illustrations not found in the earlier printings. The short story was collected in the March, 1910 Macmillan..... More
Fitchburg, Mass. Suom. Sos. Kustannusyhtion Kustantama, 1910. First Finnish edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with title and cover decoration in red and dark purple, octavo, 328 pp. First Finnish language translation of one of London's darkest tales, a fictional account of the bloody end of American democracy. Woodbridge 65. More
Los Angeles: Bosworth, Inc. (printed by U. S. Litho Co., Erie Division), [1913]. First edition. Paperback. Single sheet, 8.25 x 21.75 inches, folded to 8 pages, 8 b/w reproductions of photo stills from the movie. Text includes a synopsis of the plot and the announcement "for early production" of a...... More
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1914. First edition. Original dark green ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; octavo; 141 pp. Inscribed by George Sterling: "For Mrs. Thomas B. Bishop with the best wishes of George Sterling. San Francisco, March 19, 1917." George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) moved to..... More