Heading: (London, Jack)
Author: Morrell, Ed
Title: The Twenty-Fifth Man: The Strange Story of Ed. Morrell, the Hero of Jack London's "Star Rover" - inscribed by the author and signed by Becky London
Place Published: Montclair, N.J.
Publisher:New Era Publishing Co.
Date Published: [1924]
Description:

With frontispiece portrait of Ed Morrell. (8vo) blue cloth with gilt title and spine, decorative dust jacket. First Edition.

Inscribed by Morrell on front free endpaper: "For Henry Meyer, compliments of the 'Twenty-fifth Man', Ed Morrell, April 1929." Also signed and dated on the halftitle by Becky London, daughter of Jack London: "Sincerely- Becky London, August 9, 1986." A unique association copy of this scarce book about the terrible experiences of the last survivor of the Evans-Sontag band of train robbers. The author helped Sontag escape jail and became a hunted man with him. The foreword by Arizona Governor George W. P. Hunt and the introduction by Dr. Raymond S. Ward, Montclair, New Jersey are quite revealing about the torture and sufferings of the author while imprisoned at San Quentin, California. Jack London held the author in high regard, as he credited Morrell with helping him develop The Star Rover.

Some wear and toning to jacket, with some minor chips and closed tears along edges and at head and heel of spine, slightly larger chip at head of spine, light wear to cloth with rubbing to extremities; light offsetting to endpapers; very good.