The House of Pride

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Lot 320 | The House of Pride
The House of Pride
Jack London, 1912
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The House of Pride. New York: Macmillan, 1912.

First edition in the scarce dust jacket. London’s six stories of life in Hawaii that explore class and race tensions between the missionaries and Natives at the turn of the last century. Sisson & Martens p. 61 ff.

Octavo. Frontispiece after painting by Mac M. Pease. Publisher's advertisements. (Light toning.) Original pictorial cloth; dust jacket (folds rubbed with light chipping, spine panel and folds darkened, pale dampstain on lower panel). Custom morocco-backed clamshell box.
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