The Call of the Wild -
Jack London
1903 - The Macmillan Company, New York - First Edition, First Issue
‘Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest’
A fresh first edition of Jack London's best and most enduring work, with covers showing bright gilt, and little of the usual rubbing to the white.
Illustrated with eleven full page colour plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard, five in-text colour illustrations, and numerous full page and in-text single tint decorations and illustrations, by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, decorations by Charles E. Hooper.
‘What projects The Call of the Wild towards immortality is London's urgent and vivid style, and his astonishing identification with the world he's describing’ - The Guardian Newspaper (2014), 100 best novels. Reference: BAL 11876. Sisson & Martens, Jack London First Editions, 13.
First edition, first issue with ‘Set up, electrotyped, and published July, 1903’ printed beneath the copyright date on verso of title page.
Octavo (book size 20x14cm) pp. [6] 9-231 [1] 2 (publisher’s ads). Pagination reflects that of the publisher which includes the colour plates. In publisher’s vertically ribbed green cloth, decorated in black, white, and terracotta, and lettered in gilt to spine and front board, top edge gilt, pale green illustrated endpapers. Condition: Near fine, a very small amount of rubbing to boards, light gentle foxing to frontispiece and facing pages, else clean throughout. Ref: 112653 Price: HK$ 30,000
A fresh first edition of Jack London's best and most enduring work, with covers showing bright gilt, and little of the usual rubbing to the white.
Illustrated with eleven full page colour plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard, five in-text colour illustrations, and numerous full page and in-text single tint decorations and illustrations, by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, decorations by Charles E. Hooper.
‘What projects The Call of the Wild towards immortality is London's urgent and vivid style, and his astonishing identification with the world he's describing’ - The Guardian Newspaper (2014), 100 best novels. Reference: BAL 11876. Sisson & Martens, Jack London First Editions, 13.
First edition, first issue with ‘Set up, electrotyped, and published July, 1903’ printed beneath the copyright date on verso of title page.
Octavo (book size 20x14cm) pp. [6] 9-231 [1] 2 (publisher’s ads). Pagination reflects that of the publisher which includes the colour plates. In publisher’s vertically ribbed green cloth, decorated in black, white, and terracotta, and lettered in gilt to spine and front board, top edge gilt, pale green illustrated endpapers. Condition: Near fine, a very small amount of rubbing to boards, light gentle foxing to frontispiece and facing pages, else clean throughout. Ref: 112653 Price: HK$ 30,000