With a Check to the Socialist Party

A Klondike Trilogy: Three Uncollected Stories [Lettered with London Check]

London, Jack

Publication: Santa Barbara: Neville, 1983. First Edition.

Notes: Collects three previously unpublished Klondike stories, The Devil's Dice Box; The Test: A Klondike Wooing; and A Klondike Christmas. This is one of 26 lettered copies with an original check signed by Jack London mounted on the colophon page.

Edited and with a foreword by Earle Labor.

[2:blank], x, 43, [1:blank] pages. 9 by 11 inches. Bound in pebbled bonded leather stamped in gilt.

Edition + Condition: First edition. A near fine copy with very slight edge wear. This is copy N, from the personal collection of the publisher, Maurice Neville. This copy has a mounted cancelled check signed by London and made out to "Secretary Oakland Branch Socialist Party" on Dec. 31, 1912. London was one of the most prominent and committed Socialists of his time.

Item No: #366460

Price: $750