Accession number
PML 186124
Creator
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Published
Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; Cambridge [Mass.] : The Riverside Press, 1900.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Stories originally published in Overland monthly and the Atlantic monthly.
Frontispiece illustration by Maynard Dixon.
"The Riverside Press. Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co., Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A."--Colophon.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Stories originally published in Overland monthly and the Atlantic monthly.
Frontispiece illustration by Maynard Dixon.
"The Riverside Press. Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co., Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A."--Colophon.
Description
251 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: Dear Blanche: - My first book, latest edition of same, with Christmas greeting and a hearty hand-shake. Jack London, Christmas, 1904; former owner's inscription in ink on flyleaf: 1930, Dearest Jack: Twenty-four Christmases after Jack London, one of the best friends I ever had, gave this book to me, I give it to you, with all the good wishes there are, & all my love, Tante Blanche, Christmas - San Francisco, Jack Allan Partington Jr., From Blanche Partington.
Provenance
Blanche Partington; Jack Alan Partington Jr.; Carter Burden.
Binding
Green pictorial cloth.
Classification
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