LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The House of Pride. New York: Macmillan, 1912. [WITH:] The Turtles of Tasman. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1916.

Two first editions of short story collections, in the scarce dust jackets. The House of Pride is comprised of six stories of life in Hawaii that explore class and race tensions between the missionaries and Natives at the turn of the last century. The title story of The Turtles of Tasman is almost a novella and is followed by seven very different short stories. These include “Finis” and “The End of the Story," both classic Klondike tales of adventure, "The First Poet," a play set in the Neolithic, and “Told in the Drooling Ward,” written from the perspective of a low level assistant. Sisson & Martens p. 61 ff.

Together, two volumes, octavo. The House of Pride: 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. The Turtles of Tasman: Publisher's ads and three blank leaves at end (toned page from bookmark). Original pictorial cloth; pictorial dust jacket repeating the cloth design, by "GH" (touch of rubbing to cloth, jacket tanned, light chipping to extremities and upper flap fold, a couple short closed tears at lower edge). Custom morocco-backed clamshell box. Provenance: James Nicolas Young (period Art Nouveau bookplate).