Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
LONDON, JACK. The Son of the Wolf. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo, first state grey silver-stamped cloth with Houghton/Mifflin & Co. at foot of spine, slight lean, covers clean with silver bright; interior clean with no markings. An excellent copy. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900
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first edition, first printing of london's first book, with all points correct: first issue with tipped-in frontispiece (later issues with frontispiece sewn in); first issue with comma after the year on copyright page (later issues have punctuation corrected with a period); and with extra blank at end, as in the LOC copy, indicating one of the earliest bound copies. First printing was only 2028 copies. An exceptionally nice example of London's first novel. BAL 11869; Sisson & Martens, p. 1.