x, 256 + [3] ad pp. (Small 8vo) original maroon cloth with white cloth spine, front cover lettered in white, spine in black, top edge gilt. First Edition.

Long inscription from the author on the front free endpaper: "Dear Dad:- When you get that bungalow of easement & content, get also a telescope. Then will you raise my sail in the offing and see me drift in on calm tides; and drop anchor in your sheltered cove. Jack London. Oakland, Calif., December 3, 1906." 'Dad" was London's affectionate nickname for Charles Warren Stoddard. A later (1982) inscription from London's daughter Becky London on the front pastedown endpaper. One of the scarcest of Jack London first editions; only 920 copies printed. This copy with the spine imprint in two lines (The Macmillan / Company). Another copy in this sale has the publisher's imprint in three lines (The / Macmillan / Company). Neither the BAL or Sisson & Martens discuss this variation, though they do discuss another variant with a shorter spine imprint reading just "Macmillan", a copy of which is also in this sale. Russ Kingman describes the three variant imprints in his "Collector's Guide to Jack London First Editions." BAL 11898; Sisson & Martens, p. 31; Kingman 16.