SIGNED CHEQUE. – Alex KERSHAW. Jack London, A Life. London: Harper Collins, 1997. First edition, with a tipped-in signed cheque written and signed by Jack London, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) Errata slip, photographic illustrations. (Mild toning, small tear to the cheque.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Note: the cheque is made out to the ‘Sunset Telephone Co.’ to the amount of $4.35 and is stamped ‘APR 7 1905’ in purple ink by the ‘Central Bank, Oakland’. London spent much of his childhood in Oakland and the waterfront bars include Johnny Heinhold’s ‘First and Last Chance Saloon’ which inspired much of ‘Call of the Wild’ and ‘The Sea Wolf’ and is mentioned many times in ‘John Barleycorn’. Oakland also has a ‘Jack London Square’ and ‘Jack London Train Station’. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.