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Jack London. Love of Life. The Macmillan Company, 1907.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Spine is sunned and shaken, but secure. Cover is worn, especially along edges. Cover corners are bumped. Text block is tanned, but legibility is not affected. Front paste-down end paper is torn. Inside is foxed and tanned, but unmarked and readable.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
JACK LONDON. LOVE OF LIFE. THE MACMILLAN CO. TORONTO, 1907.
Price: US$149.94 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: SPINE SOILED, SCRATCHED AND FRAYED. GILT TITLE ON FRONT BOARD IS STILL QUITE BRIGHT. FRONT FREE END PAPER EXCISED. SHAKEN. INTERNALLY WEAK AT HINGES. WATER STAIN TO THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE TEXT BLOCK, IMPACTING 120 PAGES, BUT NOT ENCROACHING ON THE PRINT. SHORT STORIES FROM THE WELL KNOWN AUTHOR OF "THE CALL OF THE WILD". THIS BOOK IS CLEARLY IDENTICAL TO THE MACMILLAN NEW YORK FIRST, YET HAS "THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA . " THE ADDRESS OF THE CANADIAN PUBLISHER HAS BEEN STAMPED ON THE TITLE PAGE. I HAVE FOUND NO INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT, BUT IS REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT MACMILLAN, NEW YORK , SHIPPED COPIES OF "LOVE OF LIFE" THAT WERE PRINTED THERE, TO TORONTO, WHERE THEY WERE STAMPED ACCORDINGLY AND SOLD ON THE CANADIAN MARKET. FIRST CANADIAN EDITION. 265 PAGES VERY RARE THUS.
Seller: BooksCardsNBikes, Stratford, ON, Canada
London, Jack. Love of Life and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$153.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy in its first printing. Dark blue boards wih gold or gilt lettering to spine and cover. Unmarked but for neat pencilled signature of two different owners with one dated 11/27/07 on front endpaper. Tight and square. 1907 on title page as needed for first. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Love Of Life And Other Stories. MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 1907.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have omse light bumping and rubbing. There is noticeable rubbing to the front spine joint. A section about two inches long of the front spine joint has some bumping that feels like sewing, but is most likely just rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the spring of 1906 Jack London received a letter from magazine editor S. S. McClure, who was inquiring about an article published in The New York World and inelegantly headlined "Singular Similarity of a Story Written by Jack London and One Printed Four Years Before a New Literary Puzzle. " The writer for The World noted similarities between Augustus Bridle and J. K. Macdonalds "Lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun, " which appeared in McClures in December 1901, and Londons "Love of Life, " which appeared in the same magazine exactly four years later. "People are asking questions based on this parallel, " McClure wrote London. "Cant you give us something to quote back at them? " Soon even Bridle had seen the article in The World (although, it seems, not Londons story) and wrote for an explanation." (Library of America, Story of the Week)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Love of Life and Other Stories. Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 265 pages. First edition, first printing. One of 7,973 copies. Near fine book with a very slight darkening to the spine and no dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
London, Jack. LOVE OF LIFE and Other Stories. , 1907.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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 for his ranch and his growing number of dependents, he was beginning to squander a fortune on building a boat called the "Snark" for his seven years' voyage. He returned to panning out a living from Alaska in the stories collected in a volume with "Love of Life." His confidence in his own tenacity was shown in that extraordinary story of man's will to survive at all costs. Yet the instability of his long sickness also appeared in "The Sun-Dog Trail." In that underestimated story of a man and woman bent on vengeance against another man, the reason for action is hidden, and the white silence of the north is as ambiguous as it is murderous. Reality and appearance, willpower and dream, are all confused in a last reckoning. [Sinclair] As always, the title leaf is a cancel. This is a bright copy, near-fine with minor wear at the extremities. Sisson & Martens p. 36; Blanck 11904.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 265+pp. Original dark blue cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly rubbed w/ light fraying to spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper; bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Rear hinge starting. Otherwise, contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. LOVE OF LIFE: And Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this collection of eight tales. Edges lightly rubbed and few small stains to lower front board; otherwise very good or better. Lacking the rare dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. Love of Life.. NY. MacMillan Co. 1907., 1907.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Scarce: only 7,973 cc printed. VG- in blue cloth with gilt stamping: title, design, and author on front boards and spine. With 4 spots of rubbing on the front edge and a stain to the fore-edge; wear to the extremities. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Love Of Life, And Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$585.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 265 Pp. + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth, Gilt, With Orange Border On Front Cover. Published September 1907. 7,973 Copies. First Issue (No Additional Printings Noted). Cloth Clean And Unfaded, All Gilt Brilliant, Some Wear Along Edges, No Fraying. Very Light Pencil Inscription On Front Endpaper Dated In 1907. 1/4" Diameter Spot Of Lightening At Left Side Of Left Tree On Front Cover (Waterspot).
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. LOVE OF LIFE. , 1907.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 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).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.