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London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback bound in blue/green cloth-covered boards with red title on the front gilt title on the spine and a white figure on the front and top edge gilt. Book is an ex-library with usual internal stamps, the cover has a faint rubs where the library tag was removed and wear at corners and spine. Black and white illustrations with others in two-tone. A story on Boxing. 182 pages plus 6 pages of ads for London's book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: K. L. Givens Books, Bella Vista, AR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. Macmillan, NY, 1905.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second issue, with the "Copywright 1905 By The Metropoilita Magazine Co" stamp. Previous owner name and date, in exquisite handwriting on the half title page.
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. MacMillan, 1905.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition, 2nd state with Metropolitan Magazine Stamp on the copyright page. Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905. First edition with publishers statement on the copyright page; Published June, 1905
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, but with the rubber stamp notice on the copyright page. [BAL 11886, state B]. Illustrated with color plates with tissue guards, and b&w illustrations in text. Good, original light blue ribbed cloth with red, white and brown stamped title and illustration on front, gilt title on spine, gilt page tops. Ink name on front paste-down, boards are a little rubbed, a few spots of foxing in text.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE GAME. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd state with Metropolitan Magazine stamp on copyright page. With illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. Octavo, teal cloth covers with pictorial design and titles in red and white. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Former owner name on front paste-down endpaper. Studio
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. The Macmillan CO, 1905.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover and edges shows shelf wear and tanning. Pages shows tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, JACK. THE GAME. THE MACMILLAN CO., NY, 1905.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SOME FADING TO THE CLOTHBOARDS.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE GAME. The Macmillan CO. NY, 1905.
Price: US$27.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, 2nd state with Metropolitan Magazine Stamp on the copyright page. Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905. First edition with publishers statement on the copyright page; Published June, 1905. Top edge gilt. 6 colored plates each plate including fontince has original tissue guard. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Good, some light surface spotting to cloth boards and shelf rub to edges. Lacks DJ. (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC)
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
LONDON, JACK. THE GAME. Macmillan Co., N,Y., 1905.
Price: US$35.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: EX-LIBRARY 182 pages.June 1905 printing date.Water stain at bottom of spine.Ex-lib marks.Page 17-18-19-20 missing before library binding was made. On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Livres Norrois, Quebec, QC, Canada
London, Jack. The Game. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1905, 1905.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: VG in boards, 1st edition. Bears stamp from 1905 by the Metropolitan Magazine Company. 182 pages, duodecimo. Edges and corner rubbed. Mild rubbing to the rear boards. Binding starting to loosen in parts. Top edge gilt mostly rubbed away. An interesting novel on boxing.
Seller: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the Metropolitan Magazine rubber Stamp on the Copyright page, minor cloth wear to top and bottom of spine and front right lower corner, otherwise book is in good shape, 182 pages plus 6 pages of ads.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$52.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, published June, 1905 and stamped by the publisher on copyright page. With illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. Illustrated endpapers. Endpapers are stamped with owner's stamp and having loaned it to a club. Half-title stamped, "Louis Lehnert." Many illustrations, some colored - these have tissue paper protectors bound in. Green boards with red lettering on front and spine with illustration on front. Decckled long and bottom fore edges, gilded top fore edge. Interior lightly and evenly toned, otherwise clean and clear; a few minor creases to margins, and spots in margins. Slightly cocked, bumped corners, rubbing to edges and hinges.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. Morang & Co., Limited, Toronto, 1905.
Price: US$63.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: uncommon first Canadian edition; Jack London's boxing novel; blue/green publisher's vertical fine-ribbed cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; from USA sheets; lettering in red on front cover; hinges are tight; gilt is bright; no foxing; 182 pp; followed by 6 pp of ads by the New York publisher Macmillan; normal shelf wear rubbing at edges; prelims have some light staining or offset toning marks; many monochrome illustrations; all six full page full colour illustrations are present in excellent condition; second issue with "Copyright, 1905, by the Metropolitan Magazine Co." stamped on copyright page.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good. Name in pencil on front pastedown; gentle rubbing to extremities
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, 1905.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original aquamarine ribbed designer cloth with red title and white hooded figure design, and illustrated endpapers. A clean, tight, bright copy with minor rubbing to corners of spine.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 182 pages + colour frontis + 5 colour plates + in-text illustrations (6) pages advertisements. First state without rubber stamp on copyright page. Blue-green cloth covers with white and brown illustration on front board. Red lettering on front board. Gilt lettering and white decoration on spine. Top edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Gutters intact. Owner's inscription on recto of frontis. Some rubbing to cloth at edges of spine and boards. Corners of boards a little bowed. ; 12mo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Greeb cloth titled and decorated in gilt and white on the spine and titled in red on the front cover with an illustration in green, white and brown on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The slightly cocked covers are bumped and lightly rubbed. 182 & [6] deckle-edged pages, illustrated with pictorial endpapers, a color frontispiece, 5 color plates, and profuse textual illustrations including several sienna-toned full-page illustrations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. Very good. First edition, second issue with the "Metropolitan Magazine Co." stamp on the copyright page.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE GAME.. The Macmillan Company,, New York:, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue with The "Metropolitan Magazine" copyright and date stamped on reverse of title page. Green cloth covers decorated in red and white heavily rubbed, edgeworn, soiled w/bumped corners, fraying. Previous owner's small stamp bearing his initials, nonauthorial gift inscription; top edges gilt. Front hinge cracked; no DJ. ;
Seller: Nelson & Nelson, Booksellers, Trenton, SC, U.S.A.
London, Jack (1876-1916). The Game. MacMillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 182+[6 ad] pages with six color plates including frontispiece, with numerous decorations by Henry Hutt and T C Laurence. Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with white and gilt decoration and lettering to spine and red lettering and white and brown pictorial decoration on front board. (BAL 11886; Sisson & Martens 24 7 121) First edition with large rubber rubber-stamp of Metropolitan Magazine Company on copyright page. A run of 26, 420 were printed in jacket. The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations. Condition: Book plate on front paste down, corners rubbed, light shelf wear, spine ends rubbed else better than very good.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
LONDON Jack (John Griffith). The Game. The Macmillan Company 1905, 1905.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T C Lawrence, spine bumped, publisher's catalogue, top edge gilt, from the library of D H S Riddiford with his illustrated bookplate front pastedown and signature front free endpaper; very good; 182 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, 1905.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES New York: The Macmillan Company. 1905. First edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Gilt top edge. With illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. Prior owner's name and address on front pastedown, pages clean. Heavy rubbing and wear to cover cloth at extremeties, bumped edges. Sm 8vo. 182pp.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good. Corners bumped and rubbed, light discoloration to boards
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. The Macmillan Company,, New York:, 1905.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Very near fine in light blue-gray, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt and light blue text and decorations on the spine and with red text and a light blue illustration on the front board and a gilt top edge to the text block. The cloth at the extreme corners of the head and heel of the spine are slightly rubbed and there is a prior owner's name neatly written on the fly title page. Without its issued dust jacket. 182 pages followed by six pages of ads by the publisher for other novels by Jack London. This is a second issue copy with the rubber stamped "Copyright, 1905 | By the Metorpolitan Magazine Co." on the copyright page. (Sisson, p 24)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state with Metropolitan Magazine stamp on copyright page. Very Good with rubbed edges, nick in spine, former owner's details written on verso of front free endpaper. No jacket.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, second issue of London's tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. In good condition with a child's drawings to a few pages. Ownership inscriptions. One of at least four stories London wrote about boxing, The Game follows the tragic story of Joe Fleming, a twenty-year old boxer who meets his death in the ring. London worked, for a time, as a sports reporter for The Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations. The book essentially made the subject of boxing a respectable literary topic.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. Macmillan and Co., 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first American edition, published by Macmillan and Company in 1905. bound in publisher's green cloth, with wonderfully compelling illustration to front board. Color frontispiece and illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. Top edge gilt. A very good copy with some wear at extremities.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. The Macmillan Company,, New York:, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Very near fine in light blue-gray, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt and light blue text and decorations on the spine and with red text and a light blue illustration on the front board and a gilt top edge to the text block. The cloth at the extreme corners of the head and heel of the spine are slightly rubbed. Without its issued dust jacket. 182 pages followed by six pages of ads by the publisher for other novels by Jack London. This is a second issue copy with the rubber stamped "Copyright, 1905 | By the Metorpolitan Magazine Co." on the copyright page. (Sisson, p 24)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: LONDON, Jack. THE GAME. New York: The MacMillan Co., London: MacMillan and Co., 1905. First edition. 8vo., green cloth. Front board stamped in red and grey, spine stamped in grey and gilt, t.e.g. This is the variant noted in BAL as having Metropolitan Magazine Co. stamp on copyright page. A very good copy with some wear to extremities and spine ends and moderate soiling at the boards. Ink ownership on half-title. (BAL 11886).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. Macmillan, New York, 1905.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice bright copy of this Jack London first edition. The more common issue with stamp in blue to verso of title page stating 'Copyright, 1905, by the Metropolitan Magazine Co.'. Illustrated throughout with colour plates, in-text line drawings and vignettes. Vertically ribbed teal cloth lettered in red and gilt and blocked in white; top edge gilt, decorative end-papers. Very light occasional foxing and minor signs of handling, but a clean, sharp copy.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Co, New York, 1905.
Price: US$128.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 2nd issue with the Metropolitan Co. copyright in 3/32" type. 182pp., (6)pp. ads at rear, bound in gray-green pictorial cloth lettered in red, spine lettering and top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. A very nice copy, near fine. [BAL 11886].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: LONDON, Jack. The Game. Illus. by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. ORig. cloth. N.Y.: Macmillan Co., 1905. First edition. BAL 11886. A very good copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. Macmillan, New York, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Macmillan, 1905. First Edition . Very Good+/No Dust jacket. Clean and solid collectible quality First Edition (second state, with Metropolitan Magazine Co. stamped above MacMillan copyright). "Copyright, 1905, by The MacMillan Company - Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1905" on copyright page, 1905 on title page. Decorated American trade binding. Clean unfaded green ribbed cloth boards with figure of a man in white robe on cover, stamped red lettering on cover, gold lettering and small white decoration on spine. No rubbing to lettering, decoration or boards. Trace of slightest surface wear to head and heel of spine - no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with gilt top page edges. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner name neatly penned on front fixed endpaper. 182 pp. Illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence (six color plates plus black & white illustrations).
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Game. Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, second state with the Metropolitan Magazine copyright stamp applied. Illustrations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence in maroon and black, color frontispiece. Top edge gilt. A square and bright, about fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. London's morbid and tragic boxing novel, which made obvious the depression caused by his unhappy marriage, and also provided some critics with what they saw as evidence of latent homosexuality in his celebration of the male physique. Contemporary four page pamphlet of Macmillan ads tipped in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Game. Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second state with the Metropolitan Magazine copyright stamp applied. Illustrations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence in maroon and black, color frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Paper over front hinge split for a couple of inches, boards a bit soiled, a very good or a little better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. London's morbid and tragic boxing novel, which made obvious the depression caused by his unhappy marriage, and also provided some critics with what they saw as evidence of latent homosexuality in his celebration of the male physique.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE GAME. The Macmillan Company, New York/London, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Second issue, color frontispiece and five other tipped in illustrations; with numerous illustrations within the text and decorations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence, pictorial title page, 182pp., (6)pp. ads at rear, bound in gray-green pictorial cloth depicting the ghost of death in a white robe, face and hands stamped in brown, lettering red; spine lettering gilt with title gilt within a white shield; pictorial endpapers; top edge, gilt all others uncut. A handsome copy with light off-setting to rear endpapers; very light wear at extremities.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Second Issue. Octavo. Original green cloth over boards with white ink and gilt decorations and lettering at front cover and spine, red ink lettering at front cover, top edge gilt, illustrated end papers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. Very good to near fine, no dust jacket, light edge wear, some spotting at spine, spine ends slightly bumped, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
London , Jack. The Game.. Macmillan Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition , Ny , 1905. This is the Second state issue with the Magazine Cancel on the copyright page. A near fine bright copy in the original pictorial binding. Clean with contents excellent. Without the dust jacket. Still a very attractive and bright book.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. THE GAME. , 1905.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: With Illustrations and Decorations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 6 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white and brown. First Edition, which consisted of 26,420 copies. In this prizefighting tale, Joe Fleming tries to convince his fiancée to accept his career by inviting her to watch him box (a precursor to the "Rocky" movies: the fight, blow-by-blow, occupies almost the entire second half of the book). Jack had long cherished a cult of the perfect male body. He had pictures taken of himself in bathing costume, flexing his muscles and shadowboxing. He took snapshots of George Sterling posing on the beach, wearing nothing. Obsessive descriptions of male Anglo-Saxon strength, grace, and sexuality began to creep into his novels, particularly THE GAME, written in the summer of 1904. In that romance of prizefighting, the hero expressed Jack's vanity about his own body -- his skin was fair as a woman's, his face like a Greek cameo, his stance a perfection of line and strength, yet with a deep smooth chest and "muscles under their satin sheaths -- crypts of energy wherein lurked the chemistry of destruction." [Sinclair] This is a handsomely but oddly bound book, with symbols of death and of fate on the binding, on the endpapers, and throughout the text. This copy has, on the copyright page, a hand-stamped two-line notice in type that is 3/32" tall (some copies have it in smaller type, and a few have no such notice -- precedence unknown, though S&M speculates that copies with no stamp were first). This is a very good-plus copy, with some rubbing at the extremities. Sisson & Martens p. 24; Blanck 11886.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good. See scans and description. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition [BAL 11886], second issue with the smaller (1/16") magazine rubberstamp on copyright page [BAL's form A]. Octavo, 182 pp plus 6 pp ads, original ribbed teal cloth pictorially stamped in red, white and brown, lettered in red on cover, gilt on spine, top page edges gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illustrations by Henry Hutt and decorations by T.C. Lawrence. Slight spine lean, shelf wear (most notably at spine ends). Brown offset at title page from a previously laid in item. No sign of hinges starting, a commonplace problem with this issue. Colors and gilt on spine and cover bright. Faces up nicely, Very Good. First edition, second state copy of London's tale of boxing around the turn of the century. London, whose entertainment genius consisted in no small measure in fictionalizing experiences from his own life (perhaps occasionally embellished), loved boxing, and was a pugilist himself for a time in his youth. Hutt's illustrations (six in color) and Lawrence's decorations enhance the story, and the several pages of ads at the back, for some of his most famous titles, including The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf, add to the Jack London flavor of The Game. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course - not a bag. L21
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. London the MacMillan Company 1905, 1905.
Price: US$225.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, 2nd issue with Metropolital Magazine Co. stamp on copyright page (with lettering 1/16"). [1-14], 182, [+ 6 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Greyish green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and red lettering on front. White decoration on spine and death as a robed white figure cutting the thread of life in a shield like emblem on the front cover. The boards are bumped at corners and ends of spine with some rubbing, wear and whitish marks; they have also had a small amount of professional restoration done. Brown illustrations on endpapers with some slight discolouration, previous owners name in light blue pencil on front pastedown. The book contains 5 colour plates plus the frontis. There are also smaller B/W illustration as well as some brown illustrations throughout. Many of the brown illustrations (including those on the endpapers) have left small marks on the pages opposite where the ink has transfered very lightly. The text block is clean and tight with the outer edges roughly trimmed save for the gilt top edge. A great copy. very good Sisson & Martens; PG 24. "This boxing story, [by the famous American author, journalist, and social activist], was serialized in Meptropolitan Magazine April-May 1905. It created headlines when critics claimed the story was unreal. That no fighter could be killed by hitting his head on the canvas. Jack replied he had seen this actually happen in the West Oakland Athletic Club. The furor died down considerably when Jimmy Britt, lightweight champion of the world, reviewed the Game for the San Francisco Examiner and said, with a reproduction of a letter from Jack, "With nothing more than the above letter to assure me that Jack London is strictly on the 'level' and nothing more to guarantee me that he knows 'The Game' than his description of his fictional prize-fight, I would, if he were part of our world, propose or accept him as referee of my impending battle with Nelson." (The World of Jack London)
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
London, Jack. The Game. London the MacMillan Company 1905, 1905.
Price: US$225.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, 2nd issue with Metropolital Magazine Co. stamp on copyright page (with lettering 1/32"). [1-14], 182, [+ 6 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Greyish green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and red lettering on front. White decoration on spine and death as a robed white figure cutting the thread of life in a shield like emblem on the front cover. The boards are bumped and worn at corners and ends of spine with some wear and whitish scuff marks and small brown stains; the edges of the spine and boards are also worn. Brown illustrations on endpapers with some slight discolouration. The book contains 5 colour plates plus the frontis. There are also smaller B/W illustration as well as some brown illustrations throughout. Many of the brown illustrations (including those on the endpapers) have left small marks on the pages opposite where the ink has transfered very lightly. The text block is clean and tight with the outer edges roughly trimmed save for the gilt top edge. A great copy. very good Sisson & Martens; PG 24. "This boxing story, [by the famous American author, journalist, and social activist], was serialized in Meptropolitan Magazine April-May 1905. It created headlines when critics claimed the story was unreal. That no fighter could be killed by hitting his head on the canvas. Jack replied he had seen this actually happen in the West Oakland Athletic Club. The furor died down considerably when Jimmy Britt, lightweight champion of the world, reviewed the Game for the San Francisco Examiner and said, with a reproduction of a letter from Jack, "With nothing more than the above letter to assure me that Jack London is strictly on the 'level' and nothing more to guarantee me that he knows 'The Game' than his description of his fictional prize-fight, I would, if he were part of our world, propose or accept him as referee of my impending battle with Nelson." (The World of Jack London)
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$292.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First issue without the Metropolital Magazine Co stamp to the copyright page. Copyright page states: Copyright 1905 By The Macmillan Company Ste up and Electrotyped.Published June 1905. Norwood Press. J.S. Cushing & Co.- Berwick & Smith Co. Norwoo. Mass USA. 182pp + 6 pages of ads for other London Titles at rear. Top fore edge gilt. Corners are rubbed and spine edges and tips. Some staining to rear board. Small chip from cloth at the rear of the spine (1cm/2cm). Ink inscription to front paste-down. Coloured frontis plus 5 other full page colour illustrations. Sepia full page illustrations to the beginning of each chapter and many in-line b/w illustrations.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
London, Jack. The Game (Unrecorded Variant, First Edition). The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$319.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in red and gray onto upper board, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 12mo (7-1/2 inches tall), pp. 182, [6] ads, color frontis, illustrated throughout. Copyright page lacks the Metropolitan Magazine copyright rubber stamp applied to all later issues of the first edition. Volume with some light bumps and scuffs and a tiny 0.5 cm closed tear to top of frontis. An apparently unrecorded state of the first printing, lacking both the gilt to the top edge of the text block and the frontis tissue guard, with neither showing any evidence of ever having been there. London's novel of life and death in the prize-fighting ring "All I know is that you feel good in the ring" caption title p.19. Ref. Sisson, p. 24; Woodbridge, 36; Johnson/Blanck 4th ed. p. 318; Ahearn, 015a.
Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada
London, Jack. THE GAME. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. The second issue with Rubber stamped on copyright page "Copyright, 1905, by the Metropolitan Magazine Co." A story about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and we assume he based the novel on his personal observations. The book is very good with minor wear and rubbing on corners and spine ends, and small stain or offset on front pictorial pastedown. Top edge gilt. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$472.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 182 Pp + 6 Pp Ads At Rear. Published June 1905. Green Cloth, Spine Stamped In Gilt And White, Cover Stamped In Red, Brown And White Top Edge Gilt, Illustrated Endpapers. One Of 26,420 Copies. First Issue (No Magazine Stamp On Copyright Page). Very Good +, Light Wear, All Lettering Strong And Gilt Bright, No Names Or Marks, Hinges Solid.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, 1905.
Price: US$490.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 2nd state. No DJ. Decorated Binding; design not attributed, but possibly by Decorated Designers (DD). Some soiling and wear to the covers and spine, especially the edges and corners; age-related tanning of the pages. Illustrated and decorated by Henry HUTT and T.C. LAWRENCE, including six full-page, full-color plates and numerous decorations in black-and-white. Decorated endpapers. Unmarked pages. TEG. 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: Very Good
Seller: Ironwood Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. Jack London. 1905 First Edition. The MacMillan Company January 1905, 1905.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 1905 MacMillan Company. 1st edition. No dust jacket as issued. Color Plates, drawings and decorations by Henry Hutt And T C Lawrence. Green cloth boards with moderate wear to edges and corners, Spine stamped in gilt and white still bright and readable. Cover stamped in red, brown and white is bright and clear. Top edge gilt is rubbed and lightly tarnished. Pages and deckel edge are deeply tanned. Spine slightly cocked. Interior is clean and unmarked. binding is tight. Book covered by light plastic engineered cover created by previous owner. A Verg good copy.
Seller: Caspian Books, Tracy, CA, U.S.A.
JACK LONDON. THE GAME By JACK LONDON 1905 First Edition. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, NY, 1905.
Price: US$520.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: TITLE: THE GAME By JACK LONDON 1905 First Edition AUTHOR: JACK LONDON PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: NEW YORK -THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, Published June, 1905 'copyright page has the Metropolitan Magazine copyright rubber stamp applied' EDITION: First Edition with 'June, 1905' present ISBN: NONE CATEGORY: Sports, Rare, First Edition BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: OFF GREEN SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 182 plus ad pages. CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. The outside is in good condition; there is some small sized dark like freckles or smudges to the front board; there is a small pin sized nick to the back board near the upper edge; the back hinge has a small stain near the middle. There is a 'Oct, 38 - O. R.' written in ink on the top edge of the front pastedown. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS By HENRY HUTT and T. C. LAWRENCE. Color illustrations present. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 008857
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Second Issue, with rubber-stamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. on copyright page. Octavo; teal vertical-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt, white, red and brown to spine and front panel; decorative endpapers; top edge gilt; 182pp, [6] ads; illus. Brief contemporary inscription to verso of frontispiece, some trivial rubbing to spine ends and lower board edges, else very Near Fine. Illustrated by Henry Hutt & T.C. Lawrence. London's fourteenth book, a boxing novel about a boxer's final fight. BAL 11886.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 182 Pp + 6 Pp Ads At Rear. Published June 1905. Green Cloth, Spine Stamped In Gilt And White, Cover Stamped In Red, Brown And White, Top Edge Gilt, Illustrated Endpapers. One Of 26,420 Copies. Later State With Magazine Stamp On Copyright Page, All Capitals, 3/16" Tall. Light Rubbing At Corners Only, All Lettering Strong And Gilt Bright, Front Hinge Cracked. Jack London Bookplate, And With Photo Of Jack London With An Open Log By The Wheel Of His Yacht, Also With A Check For $50 Signed By London And Made Out To Artist Johannes Reimers. Born In Norway, Reimers Immigrated To The U.S. And Settled In California Before 1883. He Established Himself As A Painter At An Early Age, Focusing Predominantly On Landscapes, Which Laid The Foundation For His Design Practice. Around 1900 Reimers Was Hired To Work As A Landscape Gardener For The San Joaquin Division Of The Santa Fe Railway, Where He Introduced The Idea Of Improving The Depots With Parks. This Work And His Experience With Planting In Hot, Dry Climates Led To His Appointment As The Chief Gardener For The City Of Fresno, California. In This Role He Designed The Planting Scheme For Roeding Park In 1903 And Hobart Park In 1906. Following These Naturalistic Public Park Designs, He Was Commissioned In 1910 To Design Mooney Grove Park, A 100-Acre, Valley Woodland In Visalia, California. In 1907 Reimers Moved To San Francisco And Attended The Institute Of Art. His Work Was Publically Exhibited At The Golden Gate Park Museum And San Francisco Academy Of Art, In 1915 And 1916 Respectively. Today, Reimers Is Better Known As An Artist Than As A Landscape Architect, With Paintings In The Oakland Art Museum And The Art Institute Of Chicago.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 182pp, [6pp ads]. Original green cloth, illustrated front cover. Title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Second printing with rubber-stamped notice on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, lightly bumped edges, faint wear to joints. Front endpaper partially cracked at hinge. Complete with six color plates, including frontispiece. With two pieces of ephemera: an inscribed invitation from Becky London Fleming's 79th birthday party stating "Dear Bob - It was wonderful to have you share my party - Becky" and an advertising brochure for Jack London Ranch In The Valley Of The Moon. (Sisson & Martens 24) (BAL 11886). Jack London (1876-1916) was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity, London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television, most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket has NO pieces missing with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell box for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Exuberantly inscribed by Jack London in thick pencil. "Yours for the Revolution Jack London" Octavo, 182pp, [6pp ads]. Original green cloth, illustrated front cover. Title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Second printing with rubber-stamped notice on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, lightly bumped edges with a larger bump to the back top corner and creasing near the back top near the spine, faint wear to joints. Front endpaper partially cracked at hinge. Complete with six color plates,
Seller: Ultra Premium Classics, Marstons Mills, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Game. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Jack London on a check laid into the book. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION without the rubber stamp printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy with the scarce dustjacket. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color without the ubiquitous fading to the spine with some tape repairs behind the dustjacket. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy with the original dustjacket in collector's condition. We buy London First Editions with the original dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.