Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
London, Jack. The Little Lady Of The Bg House.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$14.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No Edition Mentioned, Dated 1916. Previous Owner's Signature On The Ffep Otherwise No Inscriptions Or Notations. Eps Front And Rear Are Split To The Webbing In The Gutters But The Boards Are Holding Firm. Colour Frontispiece Illustrated Blue Cloth Boards Showing Some Shelf Rubbing And An Illustrated Spine With Gilt Title. Jack London's Last Known Novel To Be Published.
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Jack London. THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo in decorated blue cloth. 392 pp. plus four pages of ads. "Published April, 1916" on the copyright. Fair to good. Spine rubbed; corners worn; moderate soiling to boards; hinges cracked. Very occasional foxing in margins near the end of the text. The last page is torn along the fore edge, not affecting text. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. The Macmillan Company, New York, NY, 1916.
Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 1916. Clean and tightly bound in blue cloth with color pictorial cover. Light edge and shelf wear. The contents have a gift inscription (dated 1918) on the front pastedown, a few spots and age-toning to pages, remains a Very Good copy. No dust jacket.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fair to good condition. No frontispiece. Name. Front hinge repaired. Spine tips are cover corners are bumped and worn. Most cover edges and cover surfaces are lightly rubbed. Blue cloth decorative binding. 392 pages.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1916.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo bound in pictorial blue cloth with white lettering & white, orange & black illustrations on front cover & spine. Color frontispiece illustration. Condition: minor soiling, rubbing & wear to binding; inked gift inscription on 1st free endpaper; lacks last free endpaper; else good. Pages: 392 plus ads.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. The Little Lady of the Big House.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 392 [6, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's blue pictorial cloth. First edition. Small areas of rubbing at corner tips and extremities of spine; very slight dust-soiling to cloth; tight and sound; contents fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. Macmillan Co., New York, 1916.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, published by the Macmillan Company in 1916. Bound in publisher's bright blue cloth with colorful illustration to the front board, repeated to spine. A very good of this London title, with wear to edges and extremities and erasure to front end paper.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Frontispiece and title foxed, hinges cracked, lacking the front fly, spine darkened and cocked with ends a bit worn, thus good only, lacking the scarce dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Little Lady Of The Big House. The Macmillan Company,, New York:, 1916.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and white, orange and black designs on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with rubbing and light wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. There is a dated 1916 Christmas gift inscription on the first free end page. The front hinge is cracked but holding well. Without its issued dust jacket. 392 pages of text followed by four pages of ads by the publisher. Illustrated with a color frontispiece (BAL, 19966; Woodbridge/London/Tweney, 138)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916, 1916.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Front endpapers have some writing in pencil on them.
Seller: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1916.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Description: 392p.frontis. BAL 11966
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Little Lady of the Big House. The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Little Lady of the Big House" by JACK LONDON. 1916 1st edition, 1st printing; The Macmillan Company; New York. Color frontispiece. There are 4 pages of advertisements at the back. The book is the last to be published during London's lifetime - he said of the novel, "It is all sex from start to finish." The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak. His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic and sexually self-aware woman who falls in love with Evan Graham, an old friend of her husband's. Unable to choose between the two men, she wounds herself mortally with a rifle in what her husband is certain is a suicide. Condition: Small stain spot over "London" on the front cover; the back cover has a light stain along the right edge, and tiny patches where the blue cloth color has faded; sharp corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages have a stain at the upper-outer corner starting on the half title page up to page 236; pages 73-75 have a stain at the lower-outer corner. Pages 388/389 and 392/opposing page had been attached along the outer edge.in the process of separating them, a tear resulted along the lower-outer edge.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Jack London`. The Little Lady of the Big House. The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Spine is cracked. Cover is worn, particularly along edges. Corners are bumped. Spine is tanned and foxed, but legibility is not affected. Inside is tan and slightly foxed, but unmarked and readable.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady Of The Big House. MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 1916.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. First Edition, first printing, with Published April, 1916 on the copyright page (as per Sisson & Martens). The spine ends, corners and spine joints of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The lettering on the spine of the book has some rubbing. The text pages are generally clean, though there are occasional spots of fonxing and fingermarking. The endpapers have generalized light toning and there is a previous owner's name plate (large) adhered to the front endpaper. The rear inner hinge has cracked. "Biographer Clarice Stasz writes that the book is "not autobiography", but speaks of London's "frank borrowing from his life with Charmian", his second wife, and says it is "psychologically valid as a mirror of events during [the] winter [of 191213]". Paula, like Charmian, is subject to insomnia and is unable to bear children. Based on a reading of Charmian's diary, Stasz identifies Evan Graham with two real-life men named Laurie Smith and Allan Dunn. " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE. Macmillan, New York, 1916, First Edition, 1916.
Price: US$97.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12 mo., hardcover, small brown spot on endpapers else VG in blue pictorial boards depicting a Spanish-style hacienda (is said to be modelled after Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's Hacienda del Pozo de Verona at Pleasanton, California.) with white ettering and white design. No Jacket. Published April 1916. 392 pp. four-pages of ads at the back of the book; color illustration. clean and bright with only minimal shelf wear. Full color frontispiece by Van Dresser. "No horse, no driver, no plowman, nothing but the farmer to crank the tractor and start it on its way," Dick exulted, as the uncanny mechanism turned up the brown soil and continued unguided, ever spiraling toward the field's center. "Plow, harrow, roll, seed, fertilize, cultivate, harvest--all from the front porch. And where the farmer can buy juice from a power company, all he, or his wife, will have to do is press the button, and he to his newspaper, and she to her pie-crust.".
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. The Little Lady of the Big House.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 392 [6, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's blue pictorial cloth. First edition. Ink ownership signature; shaken; light wear to cloth, particularly at the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady Of The Big House. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$117.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Vi], 392 + Ads At End. First Printing, One Of 18, 448 Copies. Published April 1916. Blue Cloth With Gilt Lettering On Spine And White Lettering On Front Cover Design In White, Black And Brick Red. Very Good +, Light Rubbing At Corners, All Lettering Strong And Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks, Rear Hinge Cracked, Light Water Stain Along Top Edge Of Front Cover. Gift Inscription Front Free Endpaper.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE.. Macmillan Company, New York, NY, 1916.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: [vi], 392 pages of text followed by [vi] pages of publisher's advertisement. Original decorative blue cloth binding with illustration on front cover and the spine. The gilt is bright, and there is only minor shelfwear; protected in fitted archival mylar. The inner hinges are slightly weakened. No dustjacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. The first printing with the date on the title page and copyright page stating April 1916. Previous owner's names on the inside front cover and front flyleaf. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. The Little Lady of the Big House.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. About Near Fine in deep blue illustrated cloth (design in black, white and orange), without jacket. Light rubbing to spine-ends. Front gutter tender but holding nicely. 392pp. with ads at end. Color frontis. Nice copy. Q10613
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House.. New York the MacMillan Company 1916, 1916.
Price: US$130.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. [i-vi], 392 [+ title leaf and 4 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Blue cloth with beige lettering on spine and front cover. Black, orange and beige decoration on spine and front cover showing a pictorial view of a house (a spanish hacienda modeled on Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's Hacienda del Pozo de Verona at Pleasanton, California. In the foreground are black palm trees and a light blue walk. The boards are very lightly bumped at corners and ends of spine; they are also slightly rubbed with some wear to the edges. Endpapers are clean with only a slight darkening to edges. The book contains a full colour frontis. Though there is some light foxing on the title page, however, the rest of the text block is clean and tight. A lovely copy. Sissons & Martens; 88. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 ?November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. (1st printing with "Published April, 1916." on copyright page, title page dated 1916.) Publisher's blue cloth with white, black, and orange stamping, gilt lettering to spine. Very Good+, cloth slightly bubbled along spine, light rubbing, foxing to top edge, author's name stamped on title page. No jacket. An attractive copy.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. Macmillan & Co., NY, 1916.
Price: US$156.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. The true first edition. Bound in pictorial blue cloth stamped in dark blue, orange and white. An early copy of this title with the copyright date of 1915 on the copyright page. With four-pages of ads at the back of the book. Tight, clean copy that shows minimal scuffing to extremes. Ref.: BAL 11996.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Price: US$189.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. No DJ. Decorated Binding; design not attributed, but possibly by Decorated Designers (DD). Soiling and wear to the covers and spine, especially the edges and corners; age-related tanning of the pages. Front hinge weakened and barely holding; front endpaper missing. Prior owner's signature and stamp on the FEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. This work has been reissued many times in many formats, but nothing compares with owning a copy in its original first edition state. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Good
Seller: Ironwood Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady Of The Big House. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Vi], 392 + Ads At End. First Printing, One Of 18,448 Copies. Published April 1916. Blue Cloth With Gilt Lettering On Spine And White Lettering On Front Cover Design In White, Black And Brick Red. Very Good, Light Rubbing At Corners And To Black Design In Lower Half Of Front Cover, All Lettering Strong And Gilt Bright, No Names Or Marks, Hinges Solid, Traces Of Personal Bookplate On Front Pastedown.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady Of The Big House. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$247.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Vi], 392 + Ads At End. First Printing, One Of 18, 448 Copies. Published April 1916. Blue Cloth With Gilt Lettering On Spine And White Lettering On Front Cover Design In White, Black And Brick Red. Very Good, Light Rubbing At Corners, All Lettering Strong And Gilt Bright,Old Inscription On Front Endpaper. Hinge Cracked Through Between Half Title And Frontispiece.Three Small Faint Red Smudges On Front Cover, About 1/2" Diameter Each.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. Macmillan Co., New York, 1916.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by the Macmillan Company in 1916. Bound in publisher's bright blue cloth with vibrant illustration to the front board, repeated to spine. A near fine example of this London title, with just the lightest trace of rubbing to extremities.The illustrated front board is compellingly bright and unworn. Frontispiece in color. The last of Jack London's novels to be published prior to his death. A facsimile of the first printing jacket is provided.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE. , 1916.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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 of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck -- "Jack persisted in gobbling underdone flesh as if he were a wolf." [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex. "It is all sex, from start to finish --" he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength.". As in THE SEA-WOLF, Jack split his own role between the two male protagonists, the ranch owner Dick Forrest and the romantic adventurer Evan Graham. Forrest is Jack's ideal of the rich commercial rancher of the future, the owner of 250,000 acres worked on strict scientific principles. Evan Graham is another version of Dick Forrest, but he has chosen to remain a writer and a wanderer -- the escapist ideal of Jack himself. Both men. compete for the love of Dick's wife, Paula -- a vision of Charmian as the elegant hostess, the athletic horsewoman, and the Eternal Kid of Jack's fantasies. She kills herself to solve her dilemma the day before Dick has decided to do the same thing. [Sinclair] This is a bright, near-fine copy (a touch of rubbing at the extremities, very light damage to the paste-downs). Sisson & Martens p. 88; Blanck 11966.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House (Review Copy). Macmillan & Co., NY, 1916.
Price: US$380.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in pictorial blue cloth stamped in dark blue, orange and white. An Advance Review Copy (blindstamped on title page). This copy precedes the first edition because of the stamp and the copyright date of 1915 on the copyright page. Slight wrinkling around spine area -- but overall, bright and whole. Ref.: BAL 11996.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House (first printing). Macmillan, New York, 1916.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Macmillan Company. New York. 1916. 392 pages. First edition 1st printing. Published April 1916 on copyright and 1916 on title page. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong. Light rubbing to cloth along edges. Light soiling to exterior. FFEP has a faint previous owner's name/address dated 1916. DJ has been married to this edition. This DJ uses the same familiar artwork as the true 1st issue DJ however this DJ came from the Grosset edition. Both are super rare and equally as brittle, hence why they are so difficult to find. The grosset edition was slightly smaller so the DJ is not an exact match in size but respectfully close. Certainly an excellent placeholder until you break the bank. DJ shows a couple of open chips and sunning to spine. Small crack to paper on rear pastedown near gutter; not affecting binding or hinges. Erasable pencil number on RFEP as well.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. MacMillan Co, New York, 1916.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition in first issue jacket with $1.50 price. Author's final novel to be published during his life time. A love triangle based partially on his marriage to his second wife Charmian. Nearly Very Good, mysterious damage along front spine edge, as if someone took an iron to it, in Good only dustjacket, half dollar sized chip at top spine end, lower spine end chipped two inches deep, several inch closed tear to mid rear panel, split along front spine edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Little Lady of the Big House. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1916, 1916.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in blue illustrated cloth. 1st printing. A firm, clean copy with slight slant. This copy is signed by Jacks London on a small card tipped in on the first endpaper and above the card there is a small photograph of London. Book collector Thomas D. Murphy's small bookplate on the front pastedown.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition with matching dates of 1916 on the title and copyright pages, and with "Published April, 1916" on the copyright page. A very good, clean copy in woven, blue cloth. Stamped in white and red and black on the front boards and stamped in bright gold on the spine. Internally clean and a slightly shaken. With a name in pencil at the top of the front endpaper. In an original dustjacket with the price of $1.50 intact at the bottom of the inside front flap. With wear and several fingernail-sized pieces missing from the top and bottom of the spine ends. Heavy edge-rubbing to the fragile folds of the jacket and light soiling to the rear panel. The front panel is also lightly soiled in the upper right-hand corner. The inside rear flap advertises Macmillan's spring fiction. A scarce, fragile dustjacket. First Edition with matching dates of 1916 on the title and copyright pages, and with "Published April, 1916" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [vi]+392+[393-394]+[4 ad] pages with frontispiece in color. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with lettering to front cover decoration with pictorial view of "The Big House" in cream and orange, a Spanish hacienda, Modeled on Mrs Phoebe Hearst's Hacienda del Pozo de Verona at Pleasanton, California. In foreground are black palm trees and light blue walk. e and gilt lettering to spine. In original pictorial jacket. ( BAL 11966; Sisson & Martens, p. 87) First edition of which 18,448 copies were printed. The Little Lady of the Big House was his last novel to be published during London's lifetime.The story concerns a love triangle The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his "acorn song" recalls London's play, The Acorn Planters). His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman, who falls in love with Evan Graham, an old friend of her husband. Unable to choose between the two men, she wounds herself mortally with a rifle in what her husband is certain is a suicide. Biographer Clarice Stasz writes that the book is "not autobiography", but speaks of London's "frank borrowing from his life with Charmian", his second wife, and says it is "psychologically valid as a mirror of events during [the] winter [of 191213]". Paula, like Charmian, is subject to insomnia and is unable to bear children. Based on a reading of Charmian's diary, Stasz identifies Evan Graham with two real-life men named Laurie Smith and Allan Dunn. (Wikipedia) Condition: Ink ownership signature on front free endpaper dated Christmas 1918, volume with slight rubbing at corners and spine ends. Jacket a bit toned and soiled, wear at edges, a few chips, two about a half-inch, one on front panel affecting two letters of the title, the other at spine head not affecting lettering else near fine in about very good jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Little Lady of the Big House. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1916.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This copy is SIGNED by Jack London on a laid in check. This First Issue dustjacket has the printed price present with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with a hint of wear to the edges. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A sharp copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED London First Editions with the ORIGINAL dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.