Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 218

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
London, Jack (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.

First edition, octavo, frontispiece with original tissue-guard present, illustrated with full page plates and chapter vignettes by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, decorated by Charles Hooper; with two pages of ads at rear; bound in publisher's green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth, with white endpapers printed in blue, top edge gilt; with the original dust-jacket; occasional foxing and toning to contents, closed marginal tear affecting page 221; spine slightly cocked, minor rubbing, small losses to gilt top edge, overall a nicely preserved, bright copy; minor edge chipping to jacket, with slight sunning to spine, some color offsetting to interior front panel; 7 5/8 x 5 in.

BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 119.