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*** pages. Format approx. 7"/170mm wide x 10"/240mm tall. Acid-free card covers, text paper and endpapers. Printed & bound in England. ISBN: 978-0-9573385-3-1

100 Numbered/signed copies

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234 pages. Format approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; full colour title page. ISBN: 978-0-9573385-4-8

Includes all 80 original black & white 'illustrations from photographs'.

Fully bound in dark purple cloth; front cover artwork embossed in gold; 3-page ‘stepped’ Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers — the page colours being poppy red, champagne and indigo blue; Canson Mi-Tientes poppy red back endpapers; 100% recycled, acid-free text paper.

Signed by Iain Sinclair.

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26 Lettered/signed/clamshell copies

£*** plus shipping

234 pages. Format approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; full colour title page. ISBN: 978-0-9573385-4-8

Includes all 80 original black & white 'illustrations from photographs.

Quarter bound with Canson Mi-Tientes slate grey paper covered boards, with Japanese silk/natural linen spine; front cover artwork embossed in copper; 3-page ‘stepped’ Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers — the page colours being poppy red, champagne and indigo blue; Canson Mi-Tientes poppy red back endpapers; 100% recycled, acid-free text paper.

Housed in a custom solander box bound with Japanese silk/natural linen. In addition there is a 'button & string' portfolio of gum prints, hand coloured by the artist Harry Adams.

All lettered copies are signed by Iain Sinclair, the publishers Michael Curran & Steven Lowe and Harry Adams.

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“Hats off to Tangerine Press [and L-13 Light Industrial Workshop] for re-publishing Jack London’s descent into London’s east end. [The author] rails against the industrial machine – operating without restriction in a divided metropolis where one in every four adults died on public charity. The People of the Abyss shows how far we have come, but also the dangers of a new abyss yawning as global capitalism dumps unions and enforces zero-hour contracts, and the global arms industry’s bombs drive millions from their homes.”
— The Irish Times

“It is good to see the photographs restored to their rightful places, interspersed throughout this lovingly produced new edition.”
— Times Literary Supplement

“As a key text in London literature, The People of the Abyss hovers between the alchemical metaphors of dust and water in Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) by Charles Dickens and the neurotic shifts between pornography and paranoia, centre and
suburb, in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (1907). Everything Jack London achieves in his season in hell, when he is disguised in borrowed rags, moving with a sailor’s swagger, plays against the chilling witness of the photographs.”
— Morning Star

Jack London (1876 -1916) was an American author, journalist and social activist, best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang. He came to London in the early 1900s, curious to see for himself the very heart of the British Empire. The People of the Abyss is London’s shocking, thought-provoking first-hand account of what he found there. Living in the East End, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets, he witnessed desperation, starvation and death on an unprecedented level. Indeed, London himself stated in an interview years later that the book “was of all his books, closest to
his heart.”

Iain Sinclair was born in 1943 in Cardiff, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the London School of Film Technique. The city of London is central to his work, and his books tell a psychogeography of the capital involving numerous characters such as those found in his book My Favourite London Devils, published by Tangerine Press. His non-fiction works include Lights Out for the Territory; Rodinsky’s Room; London Orbital; London Overground and The Last London. His novels include Downriver (1991); Landor’s Tower (2001); White Goods (2002); Dining on Stones (2004); and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire (2009), which was shortlisted for the 2010 Ondaatje Prize. Iain Sinclair lives in Hackney, East London.