London, Jack.

The Call of the WIld. New York: Macmillan, 1903



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 in.; 192 x 135 mm). Frontispiece and 10 plates after Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Publisher's gilt-titled vertically-ribbed pictorial green cloth in green-printed illustrated gray dust-jacket; light exposure at corners and trivial rubbing to spine ends of cloth, small chips at head of jacket spine panel not affecting title, small chip at lower fold of spine panel beneath imprint and tiny chip at upper right corner of front panel, unobtrusive faint red stain alongside"T" in front cover title,  gilt titles and pictorial upper cover unusually bright and unrubbed for this title.

BAL 11876. Johnson, Highspots of American Literature, p. 51

Condition as above, minimal rubbing to cloth, few nicks to jacket
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First edition. A very pleasing copy of London's best-known work.