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Author: London, Jack
Title: Adventure - with Jack London signature, original photograph & Charmian London inscription
Place: New York
Publisher: The Regent Press
Date: [1911]
Item # : 167624
Sale Number   341
Lot Number   191
Sale Name    
Fine Modern Literature
Sale Date   09/28/2006
Price realized   $ 575
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Description:
viii, 405 pp. 7¼x5, light blue-gray cloth, red-orange patterned vignette on spine and front cover, lettered in dark black-blue. Early Reprint.
With Jack London’s clipped signature affixed with his official pictorial bookplate with wolf vignette. Also, inscribed and signed by Jack’s wife with an original silver-print photograph (4½x3½") of Jack and Charmian together with photographer’s signature in the negative (Annie W. Brigman) on the front free endpaper. Signed: “Dear Inez McPhee: I know you’ll enjoy finding some of your friends herein. Affectionately, Charmian London, Glen Ellen, May 15, 1920.”
Condition:
Jacket chipped and torn, missing front flap, dampstains, faint owner’s signature on front panel; soiling, volume spine faded, scattered spots, edge wear; hinges cracking, other age wear. Fairly worn but still an interesting copy.
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