[ Facsimile Biographical Letter ] Typed Letter Signed (in facsimile), Jack London to publishers, Houghton Mifflin

Four pages, folio, stapled top left, fold marks, some ink stained finger marks (perhaps also in facsimile?) on final page. A letter by which the author introduces himself and his life in technicolour detail, he winds up, "Am healthy, love exercise, and take little. Shall pay the penalty some day." Notes: A. " As advance publicity [for Stone's "Sailor on Horseback"] the publishers issued a four -page facsimile of a typed Jack London letter dated Oakland California, Jan. 31, 1900. The letter is addressed to Houghton ..." (American First Editions). B. The original "[f]orms part of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library" at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. C. [Publishers’ Weekly, 1938] "Houghton Mifflin has issued a most interesting piece: a four-page facsimile of a typed letter dated Oakland, California, Jan. 31, 1900 written to Houghton Mifflin in reply to their request for autobiographical information. The publishers state: "The other day in looking through our files, we came across an unusually interesting letter from Jack London, written at the very beginning of his literary career. This letter, inasmuch as it has never before been reproduced, makes in a minor way a first edition item. We take pleasure, therefore, in sending you a copy, [...]"" No other copy of this "First Edition" have been found on WorldCat or COPAC.