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Book of Jack London, inscribed by Charmian

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Title: The Book of Jack London
Author: London, Charmian Kittredge
Description: 2 volumes. xvi, 422, (2); viii, 414 pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. 8½x5½, original sea-green cloth with titles in gilt. Pictorial jackets. First American Edition.Both volumes inscribed in 1938 by Charmian London to Dr. and Mrs Bernhard O. Wolff-Salin on the front free endpapers. First volume with Jack London's bookplate; second volume has Charmian's bookplate mounted to front pastedowns. Laid in is a typed letter from Charmian to the Wolff-Salin's dated April 3, 1938, wherein she apologizes for believing anti-German wartime propaganda and " . . . any of the trumped-up atrocities we were fed through bought men of brilliant minds . . ." Half-tone photos of Charmian on horseback mounted to first page of appendix in Vol. 1 and front free endpaper of Vol. 2. "These two volumes contain...250 letters, telegrams and inscriptions by Jack London to various correspondents, some complete and some excerpted. The majority are first printings...." - BAL 11983; Woodbridge 1180.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Century Co.
Date Published: 1921