first edition Unbound
1943 · New York
by (LONDON, Jack). William Floyd, edited by
New York: The Arbitrator, 1943. Unbound. Near Fine. Vol. XXV, No. l. One folio sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 9" x 12" closed. Folded twice as issued else near fine with a bit of tanning at the edges of the outer pages. Prints, among much else, two paragraphs of a 1914 letter from Jack London to Ralph Kasper, stating in part: "I have always inclined toward Haeckel's position... I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sum of activities... I join with Haeckel in being what, in lieu of any other phrase, I am compelled to call 'a positive scientific thinker.'" Editor William Floyd lays out *The Arbitrator's* aims (truncated)
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