Call of the Wild by LONDON, Jack - 1903

The First Edition of Jack Londonís Greatest Novel LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Chas. Edw. Hooper. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches; 192 x 131 mm). [5]-231, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. With frontispiece and ten color plates, included in pagination. Text illustrations, some printed in blue and some in color. Title-page printed in blue and black. Original vertically ribbed green cloth, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in white, red, black, and gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers, printed in blue with dog-team and mountain scene. In the original dark grey printed dust jacket, rebacked with tissue. Cloth rubbed along extremities, vertical crease along cloth spine, jacket with a few short tears along top and bottom of spine as well as some professional restoration. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce first edition. "The book, illustrating London's recurrent Darwinian theme of the need for adaptation to survive was an immediate success and thrust London into a position of unaccustomed wealth." (BenÈt's Reader's Encyclopedia, 163). BAL 11876. Woodbridge 19. HBS 67168. $7,500