LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In the FIRST ISSUE BINDING.
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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1903.
8vo. Numerous color-printed illustrated plates by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull; pictorial title-page printed in black and blue; 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Slight soiling, light marginal toning.) Original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (lacking dust jacket, hinges loose, some light wear to extremities, spine slightly leaned).
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. BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 11; Sisson & Martens, pp.13-14 and 119; Woodbridge 19.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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