Jack London, 1912

Smoke Bellew
Jack London, 1912
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). Smoke Bellew. New York: The Century Co., 1912.

First edition in dust jacket. The main character, Christopher "Smoke" Bellew, is a successful San Francisco writer who catches gold fever and heads for the Klondike. No copies in just jacket appear in the auction records of ABPC since 1995. Sisson & Martens, p. 65ff.

Octavo. Illustrated by P.J. Monahan with eight plates, including frontispiece. Original pictorial cloth by Decorative Designers (touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, some bubbling to cloth on spine); dust jacket (edges and folds chipped, chip at foot of spine panel affecting imprint, toning). Custom morocco-backed clamshell box.