The Game.
"Quick, one last kiss, Genevieve. It's my last fight, an' I'll fight as never before with you lookin at me": First edition of Jack London's The Game
The Game.
LONDON, Jack.
$125.00
Item Number: 128146
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
First Edition, second issue of London’s tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. In good condition with a child’s drawings to a few pages. Ownership inscriptions.
One of at least four stories London wrote about boxing, The Game follows the tragic story of Joe Fleming, a twenty-year old boxer who meets his death in the ring. London worked, for a time, as a sports reporter for The Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations. The book essentially made the subject of boxing a respectable literary topic.
