Lot 142
  • 142

London, Jack

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Works of Jack London. New York: Century Company, 1913-16; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902; London and New York: Macmillan, 1900-17
  • paper, ink, leather
42 volumes, 8vo. Most volumes with frontispieces, several with in-text illustrations and photographs by various artists; some foxing throughout. Uniformly bound in period three quarter blue morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, gilt titles and text in second and third, others with repeated floral design in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; minor rubbing to boards, spines sunned.  

Provenance

W. H. Bartlett (bookplate to front pastdown of each volume) 

Condition

Some foxing throughout. Minor rubbing to boards, corners rubbed, spines sunned.
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Catalogue Note

Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, Paul Branson, W.J. Aylward, T.C. Lawrence, Gordon Grant, and others.