Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Jack London. The Road. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1907.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second state (only 2 pages of advertisements at the back of the book). Cloth cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and soiling, no dust jacket. Minor spotting on the edges, pages are mostly clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Road. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wear on top and bottom of spine, scuffs and toning but overall good tight copy of London's classic hobo autobiography. Gilt letters still bright and black intact on front board illustrations. Black and white photographs throughout. Former bookseller price in pencil on inside front page.
Seller: Puffin & Bean, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Road. The Macmillan Company, 1907.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Spine is cracked and shaken, but secure. Spine is sunned. Bottom of spine is torn. Cover is worn, especially along edges. Text block is tanned and foxed, but readability is not affected. Front paste-down end paper has bookplate. Bottom corner of front paste-down end paper is torn. Front and back free end papers are tanned. Inside is foxed and tanned, but legibility is not impacted.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London (1876-1916). The Road. MacMillan & Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xii+224 pages with 48 plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pictorial cover in black and gilt design with gilt lettering to spine and cover. 5,360 copies published. This is part of London's autobiography (BAL 11906) (Sissions & Martens 37). First edition. The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time.[1] He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of "unprintable horrors," after being "pinched" (arrested) for vagrancy. In addition, he recounts his time with Kelly's Army, which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi River Condition: Inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners rubbed, corners bumped, stain on back board, some internal soiling. Over all good to very good lacking dust wrapper.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Road. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome copy of the 1907 1st edition, 1st issue (with the gilt-titling to the front panel and spine AND the 4 pages of ads at the rear). Solid and VG+ in its decorative light-gray cloth, with very light wear at the spine crown. Thick octavo, 48 illustrations complementing the text, most of them crisp black-and-white photos. London'e early experience as a hobo riding the rails.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Road. The Macmillan Company, 1907.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book by Jack London is an autobiographical memoir. The book is in good shape. It does have some wear and tear on the cover, a couple of markings, the spine is somewhat loose, but overall since it is a 1907 book it is in good shape for its age.
Seller: PB&J Brownbag Books, Kendallville, IN, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Road. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. (States "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1907." on copyright page. Rare variant binding noted by BAL and Sisson & Martens with no gilt on cover or edges, only two pages of ads at rear.) xii, 224, (ii) pp. Illustrated. Very Good, no jacket. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. Black stamping rubbed, cloth a little grubby, bottom edge a bit worn. The Call of the Wild author's account of hopping freight trains across the USA in 1890, one of the best hobo books of all time.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Road (First Issue Binding, Gilt). The Macmillan Company, New York, 1907.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Xii, 224 Pp. + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. First Printing, Published November 1907. 5,360 Copies. Light Grey Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing, First Binding. Very Near Fine, An Exceptionally Well Preserved Example, No Wear, And Rare Thus; The Book Is Oversize And Heavy, And The Light Gray Cloth Is Very Susceptible To Signs Of Soiling. Faint 1/4" Spot On Spine Below "Road", Another Adjacent On Front Cover; Upper Two Tips Bumped.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.