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Sale 388: Jack London: A Private Collection (#388) 09/18/2008 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/18/2008 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #80White Fang

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$28,125

Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000

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Sale 388: Jack London: A Private Collection (#388) 09/18/2008 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/18/2008 1:00 PM PDT

Description

Title:

White Fang

Author:

London, Jack

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Macmillan & Co.

Date Published:

1906

Description:

vii, [3], 327, [1] + [4] ad pp. Illustrated with 8 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull including frontispiece with tissue-guard; pictorial endpapers. Decorative bluish-green cloth lettered in cream on front cover, in gilt on spine, cover illustration in black and cream. Jacket. First Edition, usual supposed second state with cancel title page.

Nice copy of the Klondike classic in rare and original pictorial jacket printed in forest green on coarse gray-green paper. Jacket art duplicates cover design. BAL 11896; Sisson & Martens, p. 29.

Condition:

Scratches to front cover decoration, mild rubbing to edges of covers, else bright and very good in complete, original and unrestored jacket with horizontal crease across the entire sheet, short splits starting in crease, tears starting in flap folds, a couple closed tears to edges, still near fine.

Item#:

194688

Headline:

Jack London's White Fang, 1st in jacket
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