Moon Face
Jack London
(The Regent Press, Jan. 1, 1906)
Original blue pictorial cloth decorated in cream, pale green, and gilt, octavo, 273 pp + 4pp adverts. Top edge gilt. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JACK LONDON to his close friend Johannes Reimers: "Dear Johannes: And there isn't a detestable Indian within the covers of this book. Now will you be good? But I know you won't because–well, because you are Johannes, and because the quality of your gray matter is no improvement upon that of the ancient Greeks. With love, Jack London. Glen Ellen, Calif. Oct. 3, 1906." Johannes Reimers was a Norwegian-American writer and artist who first met Jack at a 1902 birthday party given for Jack by Anna Strunsky. See Charmian London's "The Book of Jack London" volume 1, page 368 for a detailed account of this first meeting. Reimers much later designed the landscaping surrounding the Londons' doomed Wolf House. "BAL 11895, Sisson/Martens page 28. 8400 copies printed in the first edition.