Jack London & His Circle: The Collection of Donald Bauer, Sale 368

Language: English

Published by PBA Galleries, 2007

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PBA Galleries, Published 2007. Paperback, 62, [8] pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs. In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers, sepia photographic portrait of London on front, black rear cover reproducing four lots. Mild shelf wear with bumping to edges, vertical crease at fore-edge of front cover, diagonal crease to upper right corner of rear cover. Perfect bound, binding tight. Pages clean. Otherwise unmarked. Signature at foot of front cover is part of the reproduced photograph, which is a detail of lot 48, and is not a signature on this copy. Single-owner sale of Jack London material formed over many years by Donald Bauer, with additional consignments, catalogued by London specialist Steve Blackmer of Chanticleer Books, Sonoma. 169 lots described with estimates and citations to the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), Sisson & Martens, and Woodbridge. Includes Ambrose Bierce's The Dance of Death, 1877, inscribed and signed by Bierce in the year of publication; Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California by Dod Grile, Chatto & Windus, 1873; autograph letters from London to Charmian Kittredge signed "Your Own Man"; a hawksbill turtle shell nose ring from the "Cannibal Islands" collected on the Snark voyage; a four-page carbon typescript, "A Bit of Data on the Japanese Question," Sydney 1909, not in BAL and from the collection of Russ Kingman; The Call of the Wild, 1903, first edition first printing with Charmian London's bookplate and a silver print photograph mounted to the front pastedown; White Fang, 1906, first issue with integral title page; "Two Gold Bricks" in The Owl, September 1897, London's first regularly published story; War of the Classes, 1905, inscribed and signed by London; and archives of George Sterling relating to Vera Connolly and to Laurita Hicks. Eight unnumbered pages at end with advertisements for forthcoming sales and prices realized for PBA Sale 365, Fine Americana with Autographs and Manuscripts, October 11, 2007.

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Title
Jack London & His Circle: The Collection of Donald Bauer, Sale 368
Author
PBA Galleries
Publisher
PBA Galleries
Publication year
2007
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
Dimensions
24 cm
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