The Call of the Wild
New York: Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company, 1913.
Authorized Edition, third printing. Presentation copy signed by Jack London on the front free endpaper and inscribed to his physician Dr. A.R. Goodman, the latter's bookplate to front pastedown: "Dear Doctor Goodman: – It takes more than you think to make me dopey – witness my shameless confession when next we meet. July 10, 1914."
[iv], 9 - 231 pp., illustrated with black and white plates. Bound in publisher's bead-grain blue cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, light rubbing to cloth, and light toning to contents; binding starting at p. 133.
A crisp inscribed copy of an early reprint of Jack London’s most famous novel. The Review of Reviews was a reform magazine, sister to the progressive British periodical of the same name, and a natural choice to publish affordable editions of books by the socialist champion. That champion took a warm interest in the Mexican Revolution and traveled to Mexico in 1914 as a war correspondent for Collier’s. Charmian London wrote in her 1921 biography of her husband that he was stricken with dysentery in Vera Cruz and was treated by Dr. Goodman, the resident American physician. This book was one of a set he gave to his physician, whose advice he had partially ignored, in gratitude.
Price: $8,800