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Jack London. The Faith of Men. The MacMillan Company, 1904.
Price: US$8.71 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1904. No Edition Remarks. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Slight stains and markings to some pages. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining and wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other stories. M A Donohue & Company., Chicago / New York., 1904.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Description: 286 p. Hard cover, tan woven cloth over boards. Black titles. Age toning. Lower page block, damp stains. Fiction. Short stories: Title and 7 other stories: The Relic of Pilocene, The Hyperborean Brew, Too Much Gold, The One Thousand Dozen, The Marriage of Lit-Lit, Batard, The Story of Jees Uck. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Soiled. Age-toned reading copy. Well-bound early 20th century edition. Top spine light fray. Reprint. First published: Macmillan 1904; Donohue 1904.
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men. Macmillan Co., 1904.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Torn (repaired) spine cover, some soiling to front rear (water?) boards. Front fly leaf missing. Clean and tight inside.
Seller: Blue Heron Books, Claremont, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York & Chicago, 1904.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 286+2pp ads. FIRST EDITION, first printing, published April 1904. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top edges gilt. Moderate edgewear, spine sunned, some chipping at spine ends, some internal separation. Front free endpaper missing, mild age-toning, small Brentano's Booksellers label on rear pastedown. Contents are otherwise clean and unmarked.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth, front cover stamped in three colors, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; v,[1],286pp. Extremities rubbed with brief exposure at corners, front cover lettering faded, spine cocked, front hinge broken; overall a Good or better copy, internally clean and sound. [BAL 11878].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ISBN . B006DOLWIG Hardback. No Dustjacket Bound in blue pictorial boards with pine cone design on front cover. . . Early reprint edition , in same year as publication, from 1904 in the same size and format as the First Edition. Small Previous owners inscription on the first page in, otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. A very nice tight sound copy.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE FAITH OF MEN and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Good copy. 12mo., 286 pp., with 2 pages of advertisements. Blue-grey cloth cloth with title and design on the front board. Moderate shelf wear, with spine title lettering dulled. Front hinge cracking at the title page. Previous owner's neat signature and 1904 date on a front end paper. A Good copy.*** 1st printing, Published April, 1904***.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Original decorative blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering at spine, gilt top edge. BAL 11878. Good, no dust jacket, spine ends and front corners bumped, spine heavily faded afftecting lettering, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$76.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 286 Pp + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth, Spine Stamped In Gilt, Front Cover Stamped In Black, Light Blue And White, Top Edge Gilt. . First Printing, Publishing Date 1904 On Title Page And September, 1904 On Copyright Page. 6802 Copies Printed. Front Cover With Clear Colored Embossed Design And Black Lettering, Spine With Complete Shiny Gilt Lettering And Design, Top Edge Gilt Still Shiny, But Still A Worn Copy. Frayed At Top And Bottom Of Spine And All Four Tips, With A 5/16" Split At Top Of Spine. Hinges Solid, No Cracking. No Foxing.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition, first printing, April 1904 on copyright page. Fair to good copy in blue cloth with pine cone motif on front cover, no dustjacket. Some shelfwear including rubbing to the extremities and some darkening to the outer edge of the front cover, good hinges, text block sound with some separation between gatherings but all pages very firmly attached, narrow dampstain to far outer edge throughout most of the book, not affecting the printed areas, gift notation on front free endpaper, pages otherwise unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. April, 1904. First Printing. Good copy. No jacket. In blue cloth covers with relief of moon and pine cones on upper front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Clean text pages. Previous owner's name and very small bookplate on front pastedown, else all endpapers are unmarked. Bumping and rubbing of ends of spine. Rubbing of corners and edges. Small red stain on lower front cover. Moderate shelf rubbing to covers. Thank you for your patronage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith Of Men. The MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 1904.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear, along with some light fraying, and several tiny edge tears to the cloth. There is a light slant to the spine of the book. The spine of the book has some rubbing to both the cloth and the lettering. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a large previous owner's commissioned bookplate on the front pastedown page - a large wolf head inside a shield and the name Murray underneath. The First Edition is limited to 6802 copies.
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan and Co, New York, (April), 1904.
Price: US$206.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 286pp., (2)pp. ads at rear, bound in blue cloth pictorially decorated depicting pine cones on a branch with a silver moon behind with background color of blue-green, spine and top edge gilt. A very nice copy with off-setting to pg. 177 from news print, some rubbing to corners and spine.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men. The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking dust jacket. Shelf lean. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, darkened at spine and edges. Previous owner rubber stamp twice at prelims. Several reading creases at page corners. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories.. The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven blue cloth with a drawing of pinecones against a silvery moon at the top of the front panel. Stamped brightly in gilt lettering with design on the spine. With a touch of rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends; light wear to the corners. Very clean and tight throughout, and printed on creamy white paper. A collector's copy.With 2 pages of ads for Jack's scintillating novels at the back. Only 6,802 copies of the first edition were published. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1904 and with "Published April, 1904" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men and Other Stories. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$292.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 286 Pp + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth, Spine Stamped In Gilt, Front Cover Stamped In Black, Light Blue And White, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing, Publishing Date 1904 On Title Page And September, 1904 On Copyright Page. 6802 Copies Printed. Front Cover With Colored Embossed Design And Black Lettering, Spine With Complete Shiny Gilt Lettering And Design, Top Edge Gilt Still Shiny, Hinges Tight. Spine Cloth Very Slightly Faded. Previous Owner's Name "Grace Green" And Initials "C. K." At Lower Right Corner Which I Expect Is Not "Charmian Kittredge" (London).
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Faith of Men. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1904.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The MacMillan Company, 1904. First edition. v, [1], 286 + [2] ad pp. Light blue cloth lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine; cover illus. in black, pale green & white, top edge gilt. BAL 11878; Sisson & Martens, p. 17. Heavy ownership signature and address to front free endpaper, dated Sept. 29, 1904. Slight touching to spine ends and corners, minimal spine lean; substantially better than very good, not quite near fine. A handsomely preserved copy of a collection of London's best, including A Relic of the Pliocene, A Hyperborean Brew, The Faith of Men, Too Much Gold,The One Thousand Dozen, The Marriage of Lit-lit, Batard, and The Story of Jees Uck. One of London's better known passages comes from A Relic of the Pleistocene: "I wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain definite position in a small way, also a wife; and for the good name of the community that honours my existence with its approval, and for the sake of her posterity and mine, I cannot take the chances I once did, nor foster probabilities with the careless improvidence of youth." L85
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Faith of Men. The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition ("April, 1904"). 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, with pinecone design and a cream colored moon, t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good (tiny spots to front cover; spine a little faded), tight copy. 286 pages + 2 pages of advertisements. No signatures or bookplates. Small bookseller's label on the rear pastedown.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.