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Jack London. The Iron Heel. The MacMillan Company, 1908.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First edition. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Faded front board with gilt sun decoration; bottom of spine frayed partially removed address label inside front cover. Four pages of advertising in rear. Cracked rear gutter.

Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.

Jack London. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, 1908.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. First ed. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. General shelf/age wear. Occasional minor foxing, overall pages clean. Binding sturdy.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, 1908.

Price: US$181.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 2nd printing. Ink name and date on front endpaper. 1908 Hard Cover. xiv, 354 pp., [4] publisher catalog. Original blue cloth. 8vo. A dystopian novel which plays out capitalism run rampant to a possible future in which America is under the power of a fascist dictatorship (the Iron Heel). Socialism and capitalism clash throughout, and much of London's speculation bears a startling resemblance to the first half of the twentieth century. The Iron Heel is considered by many the first dystopian novel. It is also a possible source of George Orwell's title for his famous dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four: the footnote on p. 303 stated 'Asgard was not completed until 1984,' Asgard being the supposed Utopian city, which was actually built at the expense of many serfs' lives, and where many lived in poverty. Negley 703. Bleiler 1354.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Jack London. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908.

Price: US$261.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, 1st printing ("February, 1908") in blue cloth, gilt titled spine, cover titled and decorated in gilt and gray, bottom edge untrimmed. New York: The Macmillan Company (1908), 354 pages + 4 pages of ads. A Good copy with overall wear, cracked spine and writing and foxing on end papers. No jacket.

Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Iron Heel. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher’s dark blue cloth with titles in gray and gilt, sun and hands illustration outlined in blind to front board. Near fine, with light wear to corners and spine ends, bright gilt, light soiling to top of pp. 349 - 354. Overall, a lovely copy. BAL 11908. The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel, recognized today as an important predecessor to other modern dystopian classics like We, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Brave New World. In the book, the reader is presented with the Everhard Manuscript, a historical document written by Avis Everhard and spanning the years 1912 through 1932. In the document, Avis’ husband, a socialist, convinces her and a few close friends that the tenets of Marxism are true. When Avis and her husband plot a revolution, the government and oligarchy, collectively called The Iron Heel, form a private army and attempt to crush them. The book is famous for having a number of predictions that were correct or close to being correct, such as the outbreak of World War I and the Great Depression. Orwell was a huge admirer of The Iron Heel, and it has been theorized that he chose the date "1984" for his dystopian masterpiece because in The Iron Heel that date marks the completion of the fascist "wonder-city," Asgard.

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Jack London. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: Edition : 1st edition 2nd issue, contemporary full cloth boards with gilt sunburst in gilt and title. Flat spine with title in gilt., Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing., Size : 8vo, P. half-title, (1), title, printer?s imprint, (1), blank, vii-xiv, half-title, blank, 1-354. Dust jacket and front free end paper lacking otherwise in good condition.

Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

London, Jack. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Xiv,354 Pp + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth, Stamped In Gilt And White. Bottom Of Publisher's Name 7 Mm Above Bottom Edge Of Spine; Some Copies With Name 4 Mm Gap. Light Rubbing At Corners And To White Background On Front Cover. All Gilt Brilliant. Endpapers And Pages Clean And White, Slight Even Browning To Edges Of Page Block. No Names Or Marks.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. THE IRON HEEL ( The scarce "Wilshire" variant ). Macmillan / Wilshire Book Company, 1908.

Price: US$551.00 + shipping

Description: THE IRON HEEL, Macmillan / Wilshire Book Company, slight rubbing to corner tips and spine extremities, else a bright near fine copy in the publishers original pictorial binding with grey and gold-gilt stamping. Influential dystopian novel of the future highlighting many of London's social & political views. The very scarce variant issue with the spine stamped with the Wilshire Book Company logo and the title page being a cancel.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Xiv,354 Pp + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth, Stamped In Gilt And White. Bottom Of Publisher's Name 4 Mm Above Bottom Edge Of Spine; Some Copies With 7 Mm Gap; Priority Unknown But 4Mm Gap Looks Unusually Low And May Be An Error Corrected To 7 Mm Later In The First Printing. Light Rubbing At Corners. All Gilt Brilliant. Endpapers And Some Areas Along Bottom Edge. Pages Clean And White, Slight Even Browning To Edges Of Page Block. No Names Or Marks.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Iron Heel. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Rare advance publisher's dummy of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and gray as would be utilized for the first edition, with "Advance Sample Copy" sticker printed in red affixed to front cover; title page followed by pp. 1-14, with that sequence repeated multiple times to fill out the duration of the textblock. Affixed to the front free endpaper is a clipped page from the Macmillan catalogue with a synopsis of this book and $1.50 price; small tear to clipping, and the date "Feb. 19" written in pencil above. Very Good with rubbing to cloth at extremities. London's chilling dystopian novel of a fascist dictatorship in the United States.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.