Lot 62
  • 62

London, Jack

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

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John Barleycorn. New York: The Century Company, 1913



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 190 x 134 mm). Half-title, frontispiece, 7 illustrations, three blank leaves at the end. Publisher's blackish-green cloth, gilt-stamped title and barleycorn on upper cover and on spine; corners and head and foot of spine rubbed.

Provenance

Mrs. L. Humber (gift inscription to Edith Morehouse on front pastedown dated 1944)

Literature

BAL 11946

Catalogue Note

First edition, second printing with three blank leaves at end, inscribed by London to Mrs. Humber: "It is not so often, here on the beach at Waikiki, for one kamaina to greet another kamaina when both kamainas are also sour-doughs. Sincerely yours, Jack London, Honolulu, May 3, 1915."