Description
First edition of Martin Eden by Jack London.
Octavo, 411pp, [10pp ads]. Original blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Embellishments stamped in green on front cover. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block. Lightly bumped corners, faint splash mark to spine. A near fine example. With a frontispiece by Troy Kinney and his wife, Margaret West Kinney. (Sisson & Martens 42) (BAL 11912)
Jack London (1876-1916) was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity, London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television, most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford.
