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VERY GOOD ? BOARDS: Minor scuffing to crown and foot of spine, w/slight fraying to crown and a soft foot.
Scuffing to all outside corners, w/a couple of small tears to bottom back of same.
Bottom front corner bumped/bruised.
Minor spotting along bottom margin, front.
BOOK: Good topstain.
Deckled edges to textblock.
Cracked hinge at half-title page.
Ink markings to reverse of frontispiece.
Ink stamp to copyright page.
Minor age toning w/6 pages of ads at back.
Very slight lean to spine.
Please read description and inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very nice copy of Jack London's short, dramatic novel about the "sweet science", The Game, which explores the brutal world of professional boxing through the eyes of twenty-year-old Genevieve, the fiancée of a young fighter named Joe.
This is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing, 2nd state of the work, published by Macmillan in 1905.
There is no dust jacket with this copy.
******************************************************************************************************************* "On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Joe Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game.
" Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.
Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game.
" With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A.
J.
Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates.
The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.
" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// John Griffith London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist.
A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism.
London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
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