The Game

London, Jack

Verlag: London the MacMillan Company 1905, 1905

Beschreibung

1st edition, 2nd issue with Metropolital Magazine Co. stamp on copyright page (with lettering 1/32"). [1-14], 182, [+ 6 pages ads]pp. 12mo. Greyish green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and red lettering on front. White decoration on spine and death as a robed white figure cutting the thread of life in a shield like emblem on the front cover. The boards are bumped and worn at corners and ends of spine with some wear and whitish scuff marks and small brown stains; the edges of the spine and boards are also worn. Brown illustrations on endpapers with some slight discolouration. The book contains 5 colour plates plus the frontis. There are also smaller B/W illustration as well as some brown illustrations throughout. Many of the brown illustrations (including those on the endpapers) have left small marks on the pages opposite where the ink has transfered very lightly. The text block is clean and tight with the outer edges roughly trimmed save for the gilt top edge. A great copy. very good Sisson & Martens; PG 24. "This boxing story, [by the famous American author, journalist, and social activist], was serialized in Meptropolitan Magazine April-May 1905. It created headlines when critics claimed the story was unreal. That no fighter could be killed by hitting his head on the canvas. Jack replied he had seen this actually happen in the West Oakland Athletic Club. The furor died down considerably when Jimmy Britt, lightweight champion of the world, reviewed the Game for the San Francisco Examiner and said, with a reproduction of a letter from Jack, "With nothing more than the above letter to assure me that Jack London is strictly on the 'level' and nothing more to guarantee me that he knows 'The Game' than his description of his fictional prize-fight, I would, if he were part of our world, propose or accept him as referee of my impending battle with Nelson." (The World of Jack London). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 132324

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Game

Verlag: London the MacMillan Company 1905

Erscheinungsdatum: 1905

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: very good

Auflage: 1. Auflage