The People of the Abyss

New York: Grosset & Dunlop, [1907]. Fourth Printing thus. Red cloth duodecimo with embossed designs and gilt text; xiv, 319 pages: illustrations; 20 cm Very good (+); some sunning to spine and light wear to extremities; boards have minor spots to rear; ink prior owner stamp to front pastedown; else clean, tight and bright. Hardcover.

Nice copy. "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of an explorer. I was open to be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world. That which made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good; that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and distorted life, was bad." --Preface by the author.

Jack London's exploration of the life of the poor in turn of the century London.