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Comprises: 7 volumes with London appearances: Dodge, Mary Mapes, ed. St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine. 2 vols.: Vol. XXIX-XXX (May 1902-April 1903). Original dec. red cloth. With The Cruise of the Dazzler, To Repel Boarders, & In Yeddo Bay by London; The Black Cat monthly magazine. Wrappers. With long ad in front “How Jack London ‘Arrived’, Boston Globe.” July 1904; The Spinners’ Book of Fiction by Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin…Jack London… (et al.). Dedicatory poem by George Sterling. Dec. tan buckram, color oval portrait on cover. Illus. Paul Elder, [1907]; “A Book of Verse.” Thick stock paper boards. P.C.:A.C., 1910; Schwarz. General Types of Superior Men. Preface by London. (BAL 11970). Cloth. Badger, [1916]; Francisco Ferrer: His Life, Work and Martyrdom. With Messages Written Especially for this Brochure by…Maxim Gorky…Jack London & others. Pictorial tan wrappers. Label and bookplate as part of the Willard S. Morse collection of Jack London. [c.1920]. * And, 11 miscellaneous volumes (many of London’s circle): 2 from library of Xavier Tizoc Martinez: Art by Clive Bell (with plates), hand-drawn bookplate signed by Martinez with an original silver-print photo of Martinez working on craft-like project, laid in, 3rd Ed., [1913]; and The Creative Will by Willard Wright, original hand-painted bookplate signed below by Martinez, lacks front free endpaper, Lane, [1916]. * Coolbrith, Ina. Songs from the Golden Gate. Illus. by Wm. Keith. Inscribed & signed to Emily Langsford by the author. 6th printing. [1895]. * Miller, Joaquin. ’49: Forty-Nine: An Idyl Drama of the Sierras. Inscribed & signed by the author in 1882 on inside cover. 2nd Ed. Original pictorially printed tan wrappers, spine repaired with later white cloth tape. Worn, binding somewhat loose. CA Pub. Co., 1882. * Hubbard. Little Journey of Joaquin Miller (also a study by George Wharton James). Soft green suede leather. Roycrofters, [1903]. * Le Kama Soutra Regles de L’Amour…, rebound in cloth, Paris, 1891. * Mighels. Society and Babe Robinson or the Streets of Old San Francisco, a play, tan wrappers, Pac. Pub. Co., 1914. * Bland. Sierran Pan. Intro. by Edwin Markham. Inscribed & signed by author at San Jose State Univ. 1922. * Markham. Lincoln & other poems. Dj. Later Ed. With 2 Jack London related new postcards, laid in. 1928. * Lane, Rose Wilder (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder). He Was a Man. Harper, 1925. * Mencken, ed. The American Mercury, Vol. X, #37, with A First-Class Fighting Man by George Sterling, wrappers, Jan. 1927. Together, 18 volumes. Some illustrated. Mostly 8vo. Most in original cloth; 1 in leather; 6 in wrappers.