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Lot #430
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Signed book: Burning Daylight by Jack London. First edition. NY: Macmillan, 1910. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.75, 361 pages. Signed on an off-white slip clipped from a check, "Jack London," affixed to the first free end page below one of his personal bookplates. The name of London's friend, the poet and translator John Myers O'Hara, appears to the upper right (perhaps his ownership signature). In very good to fine condition.

Signed book: Such Counsels as You Gave to Me & Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers. First edition, limited issue, numbered 176/300. NY: Random House, 1937. Hardcover with slipcase, 5.75 x 8.25, 129 pages. Signed on the colophon in fountain pen, "Robinson Jeffers." In fine condition, with rubbing at spine ends. A handsome volume with title and cover decorations made from wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Also includes: a softcover copy of Maurizius Forever by Henry Miller, published by Fridtjof-Karla in 1959, with a forged signature on the half-title page (as is typical of these editions); a first edition of 1970 Poems: Transition by Leonard Harlig, signed and inscribed on the first free end page by Harling; and a slipcased copy of Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel by Henry Miller (with introduction by Lawrence Durrell), elaborately published by Loujon Press in 1966 in an edition of 1399. In overall very good to fine condition, with paper loss to the Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel jacket spine. In very good to fine condition.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #574 - Ended January 08, 2020