Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
London, Jack (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.



First edition, first printing with "July 1903" on copyright, octavo, including 2 pp. of ads at rear; frontispiece with original tissue-guard preserved, illustrated with full-page plates and chapter vignettes by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, decorated by Charles Hooper; bound in vertically ribbed green publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt-decorated, with white endpapers printed in blue, top edge gilt (lacking the scarce original dust jacket; scattered stains; spine slightly cocked, bumped); 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.

BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, page 119.

Provenance: Charles M. Baker with ownership inscription.