The Call of the Wild
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.
First edition, first printing. 231, [3] pp. with two advertisement pages at rear; 10 color lithographic plates including frontis (lacking p. 229 plate). Bound in publisher's dark green vertically ribbed cloth with pictorial stamping in white, black, and red. Gilt lettering, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Very Good with slight lean to spine, moderate rubbing to extremities and "snow," and scattered spots of soiling to rear board. Hinges tender and binding starting at several places, small pink stain to lower right corner of front free endpaper and prelims, frontis partially detached, gutter split to pp. 169/170 (plate "Behind him..."). The first edition of Jack London's iconic story of a domestic dog rediscovering his wild nature in Alaska. Sisson & Martens 14, BAL 11876. Item #140948853
Price: $1,100