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Author: London, Jack
Title: The Call of the Wild
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
Date: 1903
Item # : 192165
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   103
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 450
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Description:
[5]-231, [1] + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 11 color plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard, plus 5 color illustrations in the text, by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorations by Charles E. Hooper. 7½x5¼, original decorative vertically ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, white, and terra-cotta, top edge gilt. First Edition, First Issue.
Jack London's best and most enduring work. BAL 11876; Sisson & Martens, p. 13.
Condition:
Shelf wear, rubbing, light 2" stain to rear cover; hinges tender, short gift inscription on front free endpaper; still a very good copy.
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