The Kempton-Wace letters

New York: Macmillan, 1903. Hardcover. [iv] 256p. [iii] set up and electrotyped May 1903, first edition, first printing in decorated gray-blue cloth with white titles on cover, gilt on spine, mild shelf wear, top edge gilt, previous owner's book plate, inscribed by Jack London's daughter "It is a pleasure to write Jack London for one of his admirers, Bess London Fleming," first printing according to Sisson page 12 and BAL 11875. Over all in very good condition. Epistolary novel about an exchange between a young scientist Herbert Wace and aging poet Dane Kempton on love and sex. Strunsky, a Socialist and wife of NAACP founder William English Walling wrote (truncated) the Kempton letters. The second printing revealed the authors' names which are absent on the first printing. (Inventory #: 191558)