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(1876-1916)
American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works - among them The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea-Wolf (1904), and White Fang (1906) - depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors.
Jack London educated himself at public libraries with the writings of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche, usually in popularized forms. At 19, he crammed a four-year high school course into one year and entered the University of California, Berkeley, but after a year he quit school to seek a fortune in the Klondike gold rush. Returning the next year, still poor and unable to find work, he decided to earn a living as a writer.
London studied magazines and then set himself a daily schedule of producing sonnets, ballads, jokes, anecdotes, adventure stories, or horror stories, steadily increasing his output. The optimism and energy with which he attacked his task are best conveyed in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1909). Within two years, by 1911, stories of his Alaskan adventures began to win acceptance for their fresh subject matter and virile force. His first book, The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North (1900), a collection of short stories that he had previously published in magazines, including Metropolitan Magazine, gained a wide audience.
Partly Printed Check Signed
“Jack London”
6.25 inches by 2.75 inches
neither tiny bank
cancellation holes nor bank stampings
are near 3½ inch
long signature
drawn on The Merchants National Bank
San Francisco, October 28, 1911
filled out by Jack London
Pay to
“Metropolitan Magazine”
for $1.50
“One ----- 50/100” DOLLARS
stamped endorsements on verso
The 1911 price of Metropolitan Magazine (3, 5, & 7 West 29th Street, New York City) was
15¢ per copy, $1.50 per year.
With this check, Jack London may have purchased 10 copies of an issue or issues in which one or more of his short stories appeared or, more likely, paid for an annual subscription.
For those who use 3rd party authenticators:
Guaranteed to receive full
certification
if submitted to JSA or PSA/DNA at buyer's expense
In 2011, Herman Darvick appeared on the “1775 Almanac”
episode of PBS's History Detectives as the “handwriting expert”
If you go to www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/1775-almanac, you can see the entire "1775 Almanac" episode
I was the handwriting expert contacted in the "1775 Almanac" episode on the PBS series "History Detectives" which was televised on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. I was asked to identify the writer of the notes handwritten on the pages of the almanac, notes that recorded, among other events, the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.
The unknown owner of the almanac had used it as a diary. Filmed in the Library of Congress, I compared the writing in the almanac with a signed letter handwritten in 1779. --- Herman Darvick
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Herman Darvick has been issuing COAs since 1968.
A forensic expert, he was an expert witness for the United States of America on autograph authenticity and value of the Nixon papers, confiscated after Watergate, in the case of the Estate of Richard Nixon v. United States (1998-2000). Items he has authenticated and sold include Jack Ruby's gun, Judy Garland's last passport, Oscars awarded to John Lennon and Harold Russell, and the first authentic signature of Shoeless Joe Jackson ever sold.
He has been interviewed by, among others, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Bill O'Reilly, Phil Donohue, and Joe Franklin, as well as by the Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today, People, The Wall Street Journal, Yomiuri Shimbun, Der Spiegel, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, CNBC, and other media.
In 2011, Herman
Darvick appeared on the “1775 Almanac”
episode of PBS's History
Detectives as the “handwriting expert”
If you go to www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/1775-almanac, you can see the entire "1775 Almanac" episode
Owner of Herman M. Darvick Autographs (1968-1985) and Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions Inc. (1985-1995), he was Chief Cataloguer & Authenticator, Gallery of History (1996-2005) and Lead Researcher, Writer & Authenticator, University Archives (2008-2017)