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London, Jack. TALES OF THE FISH PATROL; By Jack London. International Fiction Library, Cleveland New York, 1905.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), red cloth with black lettering and B&W silhouette logo of a girl with book facing a similar boy inside a sylized room flanked by globes and prisms, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (bevelled edges; seemingly not price-clipped but with no price indicated) depicting stylized Fu Manchu-like long-mustached Chinese pirate against a red shadow as he holds a sailboat in his claw-like long-nailed hand, 243 pages. Exceedingly RARE and Fine copy in an Extraordinary dust jacket. Clean, tight, bright in a brilliant, sharp dust jacket (very slightly rubbed). First copyrighted by the Perry Mason Company in 1905, which serialized the tales in 7 issues of The Youth's Companion, Vol. 79, during February & March, 1905. The Macmillan Company, New York, also published their edition in 1905 with a colorful cover with sailboat, frontispiece and 7 plates. William Heinemann, London, also published these tales in 1905 with illustrations by George Varian. Jack London (born John Chaney; 1876 - 1916) was a bestselling American novelist, journalist, early science fiction writer, and social activist. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush; a dystopian novel, The Iron Heel; plus non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. His short story "To Build a Fire" has become a classic. London also wrote about the Pacific Rim in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay," "The Heathen," and TALES OF THE FISH PATROL. As a youth, London had engaged in the dangerous plunder of oyster beds around San Francisco Bay. This collection of seven short stories recalls those rough years when he shifted from piracy to work on the Fish Patrol that struggled to protect fish and oysters from fearful pirates. First Thus (presumably reprints the Perry Mason Co. Boston edition from 1905).

Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.

Jack London. War Of The Classes (1st ed). William Heinemann, 1905.

Price: US$370.37 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1st edition. Boards have some scuffs to edges and spine. Spine faded. Bumping to corners. Content is clean and has light toning. No DJ

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

London, Jack. War of the Classes. Heinemann, 1905.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven terracotta cloth. Stamped brightly with gilt lettering on the front boards and on the spine. Heinemann stamped at the bottom of the spine. Light wear to the extremities. Very clean and tight throughout. Contains his key essay: "How I Became a Socialst." A handsome collectible copy of the first UK edition. 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 1905 and with "Published April, 1905" on the copyright page. With no subsequent printings listed.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.