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Lot 81
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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America in Literature & the Arts
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Human Drift. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Human Drift. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.
8vo. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original gilt-lettered orange-brown cloth. Provenance: Hazal Murphy (recipient of inscription).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY JACK LONDON'S WIFE, CHARMIAN: "Just a group of lights on the man we both knew. And I wish he could sign his name to this page. Aloha!" Published posthumously, The Human Drift contains several non-fiction stories including "Four Horses and a Sailor", Jack's account of a trip in company with Charmian in a horse-drawn carriage from Sonoma County to Oregon.
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