Deals The Adventures Of Captain Grief, by Jack London. World Publishing Revised Edition.

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, poet and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as 'science fiction'.

His most famous works include "The Call of the Wild", "White Fang" (both set in the Klondike Gold Rush), "The Sea-Wolf" and "Martin Eden", as well as numerous short stories like 'To Build a Fire', 'An Odyssey of the North', and 'Love of Life'. He also wrote about the South Pacific, in stories such as 'The Pearls of Parlay' and 'The Heathen'. Altogether, he wrote at least 45 novels and non-fiction works, more than 120 short stories, three full-length plays, three autobiographical memoirs, and over 40 poems.

He was born in San Francisco, the son of Flora Wellman, a music teacher and spiritualist, who claimed to channel the spirit of the Sauk chief, Black Hawk. His father is believed to have been astrologer William Chaney, although most of San Francisco's civil records were destroyed by the fires that followed the 1906 earthquake; nobody knows what actual name appeared on his birth certificate.

In 1897 deals, at age 21, London sailed to Alaska to join the Klondike Gold Rush, and this became the setting for some of his first successful stories. His time in the harsh North, however, was detrimental to his health and he became malnourished and developed scurvy. Along with unspecified tropical diseases he would later contract in the South Pacific (including Yaws), such experiences would contribute to his early death.

As London began his writing career, new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public audience and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, about $75,000 in today's currency. In early 1903, London sold "The Call of the Wild" to The Saturday Evening Post for $750, and the book rights to Macmillan for $2,000. Macmillan's promotional campaign propelled it to swift success.

When London returned from the Klondike, he became part of a radical literary group in San Francisco, and was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel "The Iron Heel", his non-fiction exposé "The People of the Abyss", and "The War of the Classes". He was also a long-time advocate for the prevention of cruelty to animals.

London died in 1916, at age 40, on a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch, in Glen Ellen California. At the time of his death, he suffered from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism, and uremia; he was in extreme pain and taking morphine.



World Publishing, Cleveland & NY, 1954 (copyright).

Revised Edition - stated. [# 2HC360.]

Jacket illustration by Philip Marini.

Near Fine copy, in a Near Fine dust jacket.



Red cloth, red top-edge, illustrated front cover, deckled pages, black letters. Minor spine bumping, head & foot, corners sharp. Crisp white pages w/o markings - appears un-read. Tightly bound. Both hinges are sound. Dust jacket has minor edge-creasing, mainly ay top & bottom of spine. A small gouge near the back spine-gutter has been repaired (closed) with rice paper. Publisher's original price of $2.95 is at the top corner of the front flap; #1371, at bottom of back cover. . Still bright & colorful. Now in a ClearBags protective book cover. 191 pages.