New York: Macmillan Company, 1905.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition, second state with the Metropolitan Magazine copyright stamp applied. Illustrations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence in maroon and black, color frontispiece. Top edge gilt. A square and bright, about fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. London's morbid and tragic boxing novel, which made obvious the depression caused by his unhappy marriage, and also provided some critics with what they saw as evidence of latent homosexuality in his celebration of the male physique. Contemporary four page pamphlet of Macmillan ads tipped in.
Item #52203
Jack London
birth name: John Griffith Chaney
born: 1/12/1876
died: 11/22/1916
nationality: USA