8vo. 18 color-printed plates by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull; pictorial title-page printed in black and blue; 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Slight toning, a few tiny stains.) Original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some slight wear to extremities, spine slightly leaned); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Paul Elder & Company San Francisco (small bookseller's ticket on rear flyleaf).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of London’s enduring adventure novel set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. In the FIRST ISSUE BINDING with vertically ribbed cloth. "Call of the Wild was one of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from the sheltered environment of civilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the early part of the century this was considered the American dream" (Parker, 16). BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 119.