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LONDON, JACK (1876-1916). Photograph signed ("Jack London"), by ARNOLD GENTHE (signed in the negative), n.p. [San Francisco], n.d. [circa 1915]. 180 x 233 mm. (7 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.), a few surface creases, some minor oxidation; matted. A handsome, reclining half-length portrait of the author, with head resting on hand, signed clearly on the lower portion of the image (across his white shirt, along his waist).
"An illegitimate child born in Gold Rush San Francisco, London had an adventurous adolescence as a seaman and then as a Klondike gold prospector. The Call of the Wild, published in 1903, was one of the first in a string of successful novels that made London, in his day, the highest-paid writer in America"--W.M.
"An illegitimate child born in Gold Rush San Francisco, London had an adventurous adolescence as a seaman and then as a Klondike gold prospector. The Call of the Wild, published in 1903, was one of the first in a string of successful novels that made London, in his day, the highest-paid writer in America"--W.M.