Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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.
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.