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Children of the Frost inscribed by Jack London

Title: Children of the Frost
Author: London, Jack
Description: [viii], 261, [blank], + [2] ad pp. Illustrations by Raphael M. Reay. 7½x5¼, gray-green cloth decorated in red, black and white on spine and front cover. First Edition.With the autograph slogan "I would be ashes rather than dust" signed and dated August 22, 1903 by Jack London on front free endpaper. Olive Percival's copy with her bookplates to front and rear pastedowns and her signature at top of front free endpaper. Olive Percival (1868-1945) was the well-known Southern California author and book collector whose collection of early English and American children's books is now part of the Children's Book Collection at UCLA. She records in her diary a meeting with Jack London in San Francisco in 1903.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
Date Published: 1902