The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature (Part III)

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Lot 71
  • 71

London, Jack

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • The Game. New York: Macmillan, 1905
  • ink,cloth
8vo. Frontispiece, five plates and numerous illustrations in the text.  Original pictorial blue-green cloth decorated in red and white; rubbing to spine ends, one corner bumped.

Literature

BAL 11886 "Copyright 1905 by the Metropolitan Magazine Co." Stamped on the copyright page.

Catalogue Note

first edition of this work on the author's favorite sport, boxing. Inscribed by London: "Dear Mab — Though vainly I tried to read it to you  in manuscript, vainly have you striven to escape it. Here it is, in cold print, at last. Sincerely yours, Jack London Glen Ellen, July 1905." 

The recipient was most likely Mabel Lachmund, a musician who frequented the Carmel literary scene.