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London, Jack, Illustrated by Gordon Grant. THE SCARLET PLAGUE. New York: MacMillan Co. 1915, 1915.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Pictorial Cloth. Very Good First Edition. 181 pp., plus 4 pages of advertisements. Minor wear to extremities, back hinge repaired.

Seller: Sagebrush Press, Morongo Valley, CA, U.S.A.

LONDON, Jack.. Scarlet Plague.. Macmillan, New York, 1915.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 181 pp. + 6 pp. ads. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. BAL 11960. Bookplate; light rubbing to the extremities; two small pieces of paper (one about an inch in size) adhering to rear cover.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

LONDON, Jack.. The scarlet plague. Illustrated by Gordon Grant.. The Macmillan Co.,, New York:, 1915.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 181, [1] pp., plus 6 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp., numerous text illustrations. Brown pictorial publisher's cloth, cover art of cityscape in brown & red, red lettering on front cover, bilt lettering & illust. on spine, illustrated endpapers (very minor chipping & fraying head & foot of spine, slight bumping & wear to couple corners), still VG- copy. First edition of London's best science fiction story, set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco. Bleiler, 1358; BAL, 11960.

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.

London, Jack. THE SCARLET PLAGUE. Macmillan, 1915.

Price: US$406.00 + shipping

Description: THE SCARLET PLAGUE, Macmillan, 1915, first edition, upper fore edge corner of the text block bumped exhibiting some creases to same, else a tight vg+ or perhaps better copy in the publishers original two color pictorial cloth. An "End of the World" novel. Illustrated.One of 5,105 copies. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you.)

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

London, Jack. THE SCARLET PLAGUE .. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9 [10] 11-181 [182: blank] [183-188: ads] [189-192: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], illustrations by Gordon Grant, original pictorial red-brown cloth, front panel stamped in orange and yellow, spine panel stamped in orange, yellow and gold, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, decorated endpapers. A world catastrophe novel in the tradition of Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN (1826) and M. P. Shiel's THE PURPLE CLOUD (1901). "Undoubtedly London's best fantastic story, told with considerable artistry and with less tub-thumping and breast-beating than usual." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1358. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-60. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 517. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 142. Bleiler (1978), p. 126. Reginald 09150. BAL 11960. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1543. Inked name to upper corner of front free end paper, a small stain to front pasted down and front free end paper, corners and spine ends a little soft, a very good copy. (31063)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Scarlet Plague. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Minor edge and corner wear, corners are mildly bumped and rubbed, some light outer page edge soil, former owner's inscription in ink on the half-title page, overall a very crisp and clean, collectible first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find. Extremely scarce. Wonderfully well-preserved! 181 unmarked and uncreased, historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations. Brown cloth with a pictorial stamping in yellow and orange and gilt lettering on the spine, light pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Conover Books, Martinsville, VA, U.S.A.

London, Jack; Gordon Grant [Illustrator]. The Scarlet Plague. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 181, [1], [4 ads] pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth stamped in red and yellowish-orange with gilt spine lettering. Light tidemark along fore edge of prelims, else Fine with beautiful, bright stamping. Slight wear to tips. A lovely copy of the post-apocalyptic novel about a deadly pandemic some have compared to Covid 19.

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

London, Jack. THE SCARLET PLAGUE. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, New York, 1915.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Illustrated by Gordon Grant. First edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4'' X 5 1/2''. 181pp. 4pp. of ads. First edition. In rare dust jacket, which has had extensive repair but kept the book in excellent condition.

Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

LONDON, Jack.. The Scarlet Plague.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: 181 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight sunning to edges of cloth, else a fresh copy in a nice jacket with some professional tissue repair to a split between the spine and back panel; some browning to back panel; and some chipping to the extremities of the spine, not affecting any lettering.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

London, Jack; Illustrations By Gordon Grant. The Scarlet Plague. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 182 Pp + 5 Pp Ads At Rear. Plum Red Cloth, Stamped In Red And Yellow, Gilt Lettering On Spine. First Printing, One Of Only 5105 Copies. Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Cloth Clean And Unfaded, No Rubbing, No Marks, Hinges Tight.

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

London, Jack. The Scarlet Plague. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing. The book is in nice shape with light wear to the top spine and panels. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy lacking the scarce dustjacket.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

London, Jack. The Scarlet Plague; Illustrated By Gordon Grant. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$2800.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Octavo, 181pp, [6pp ads]. Original maroon cloth with cityscape illustration stamped in red and yellow on front cover. Title in gilt on spine. Stated "published May, 1915" on copyright page. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, frontispiece, a fine example. In the publisher's scarce first state dust jacket, with "Illustrated By Gordon Grant / Price $1.00" label affixed to spine as issued. Small closed tears to edges, sunning to spine, small loss to bottom edge of spine. A bright example. Publisher's advertisement for "Novels of 1915" laid in. (Sisson & Martens 80) (BAL 11960). 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 SCARLET PLAGUE .. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9 [10] 11-181 [182: blank] [183-188: ads] [189-192: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], illustrations by Gordon Grant, original pictorial red-brown cloth, front panel stamped in orange and yellow, spine panel stamped in orange, yellow and gold, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. First published edition, preceded by a copyright printing. A world catastrophe novel in the tradition of Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN (1826) and M. P. Shiel's THE PURPLE CLOUD (1901). "Undoubtedly London's best fantastic story, told with considerable artistry and with less tub-thumping and breast-beating than usual." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1358. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-109; (1981) 1-118; (1887) 1-60; (1995) 1-60. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 517. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 142. Bleiler (1978), p. 126. Reginald 09150. BAL 11960. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1543. A bright, fine copy in good pictorial dust jacket with general dust soiling and some scattered foxing, mostly around the edges of front and rear panels, clean split along spine fold professionally mended, and mild loss wear at spine ends and corner tips restored. A very presentable example of a scarce jacket. (#111860)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.