New York: The MacMillan Company, 1904. First edition. v, [1], 286 + [2] ad pp. Light blue cloth lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine; cover illus. in black, pale green & white, top edge gilt. BAL 11878; Sisson & Martens, p. 17. Heavy ownership signature and address to front free endpaper, dated Sept. 29, 1904. Slight touching to spine ends and corners, minimal spine lean; substantially better than very good, not quite near fine. A handsomely preserved copy of a collection of London's best, including A Relic of the Pliocene, A Hyperborean Brew, The Faith of Men, Too Much Gold,The One Thousand Dozen, The Marriage of Lit-lit, Batard, and The Story of Jees Uck. One of London's better known passages comes from A Relic of the Pleistocene: "I wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain definite position in a small way, also a