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Jack London home is on market in Oakland

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20030728
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There's a bargain waiting out there for any bibliophiles looking to own a piece of literary history.

The Oakland, Calif., house where writer Jack London lived when he published his first short story and wrote his first story collection is on the market for $259,000.

The two-bedroom Victorian is one of 22 Oakland residences that the author of "The Call of the Wild" and "The Sea Wolf" lived in before he abandoned city life for a farm in Sonoma County.

London moved to the Oakland rowhouse that's now up for sale in 1898 at the age of 22, when he was a struggling writer who had just returned from ...

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