xvii, 379 pp. 5x7½; frontispiece; original green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. In custom red morocco and cloth clamshell case. First English Edition.

Inscribed and signed by Jack London to Constance Skinner on front free endpaper with his bookplate to front pastedown: "Dear Constance: - I already had this copy, It is, I know, a well-beloved book of yours, and my delight is great in making the exchange. You see, by the bookplate, that I take it off my library shelf. I saw Salome last night, It is a perfect play - the best, the greatest, I have ever seen on the stage. Jack London. April 12, 1907." The exchange London makes reference to is revealed in the copy of this same Ibsen title in the Jack London collection of the Huntington Library. Their copy is inscribed by Constance Skinner to Jack (see "Tools of My Trade: The Annotated Books in Jack London's Library" University of Washington Press, 1986). Constance Skinner's (1882-1939) literary career started even earlier than Jack London's. By the age of 16 she was a political reporter and editorial writer for newspapers in her native British Columbia; by 18 she was a full-time reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Examiner. She was a prolific author of many books both fiction and historical and at the time of her death was editor of the Rivers of America series. Her life intersected with London's through her association with London-intimate Cloudsley Johns. A most desirable association copy.