LONDON, Jack - Love of Life

1907. LONDON, Jack. LOVE OF LIFE AND OTHER STORIES. New York: The Macmillan Company, London: Macmillan Company, Ltd. 1907. First edition, with author's photo and bookplate and clipped signature tipped-in. [vi], 265, [blank], [4] ad pp. Octavo, 19 x 12.5 cm, publisher's blue cloth binding, stamped and lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. Rubbing to perimeters, else very good. Ink ownership of poet John Myers O'Hara (American, 1870-1944), a friend of Jack London's, to ffep. (London used the first stanza of O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to THE CALL OF THE WILD.) Also on On the ffep. is London's autograph, clipped from a Merchant's National Bank of San Francisco check, laid down beneath his lithographed bookplate, with his name printed above a wolf's head between snowshoes, beneath the bookplate of noted bibliophile John Stuart Groves. A portrait photograph showing a young Jack London is laid down on the ffep. (BAL 11904; Sisson & Martens, p. 36). .

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