The God of His Father & Other Stories

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17.09.2021 10:00UTC -05:00
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Los 317 | The God of His Father & Other Stories
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The God of His Father & Other Stories
Jack London, 1901
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The God of His Father & Other Stories. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1901. [With:] The Son of the Wolf. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. [And:] The Sea-Wolf. London: William Heinemann, 1904.

First edition, presentation copy, of London’s second book; accompanied by the first edition of his first book, The Son of Wolf, and another classic adventure, The Sea-Wolf, in first English edition. Jack London’s first two books are both collections of short stories of the Klondike. The God of His Father is inscribed “Dear Bert: — ‘Ay, the God of my fathers.’ Jack London.” Herbert Heron was the founder of the Forest Theatre in Carmel, California, in 1910. He and London collaborated in writing a play titled Gold, based on London’s short story “A Day’s Lodging.” The quote in the inscription refers to the end of the present book’s title story, in answer to the question “Hast thou a god?” (p. 33). “Knowing no God,” London boasted in 1899, “I have made of man my worship; and surely I have learned how vile he can be. But this only strengthens my regard … How small he is, and how great he is!” (Letters, 30 March 1899, to Cloudesley Johns). In 1900 and 1901, London married his first wife and then ran for mayor of Oakland as the Socialist Labor Party candidate. Sisson & Martens p. 2, 4, and 19ff.

Together, 3 volumes. Octavo. Original pictorial cloth. (God of His Fathers with tender hinges but a fine copy; some rubbing with tips just showing on other two volumes). First two titles in custom boxes.
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