LONDON, Jack. White Fang. FIRST EDITION.
Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
Jun 6, 2024
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$600 -
800
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$1,524
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Lot Description
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). White Fang. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1906.
8vo. Half-title; numerous color-printed plates by Charles Livingston Bull; 4pp. advertisements at end. (Slight marginal toning, some occasional light spotting, a few leaves with marginal losses from being roughly opened.) Original grey pictorial cloth stamped in white and black, spine gilt-lettered (lacking dust jacket, hinges starting, slight wear to extremities, some minor rubbing or scuffing).
FIRST EDITION, with the title-page a cancel on laid paper. Woodbridge and BAL identify copies with the cancel title-page as the second issue, though Merle Johnson states he knows of no copies with an integral title-page. Intended as a companion piece to The Call of the Wild, White Fang is the story of a savage part-wolf dog who is domesticated through the kindness of his owner. BAL 11896 [calling for cancel title-page on either laid or wove paper, no priority]; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.122-123; Woodbridge 46.
Suggested estimate - $400-600
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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