LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, illustrators. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903. FIRST EDITION, fourth issue. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET.
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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, illustrators. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903.
8vo. Pictorial title-page printed in black and blue, pictorial frontispiece, 25 illustrations (19 full-page and 8 in-text), leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Original publishers’ pictorial cloth stamped in red, white, and black and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorated endpapers (slightly cocked spine, some light rubbing); publisher’s printed dust jacket (some minor chipping with one small chip from the head of the spine preserved).
FIRST EDITION, fourth issue of London’s enduring adventure novel set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p 119.
Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
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