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Jack London. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan company, 1903.
Price: US$59.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Reprinted August, 1903. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles; heavy wear to edges and spine with boards peeking through at corners; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Free front endpaper missing; front and rear hinges split with webbing exposed; Previous owner's name on back of frontispiece with amateur art work on tissue guard; binding failing with several loose pages; all illustrations present; all pages appear to be present; pages toned, corner and edges brittle; some markings and stains on first few pages; 231 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Collectible Poor. Earliest reprint we believe, stated "Reprinted July, 1903" following statement of first publication date of "July, 1903."Pictorial gilt-stamped cloth. 231pp. Illus. T.E.G. (top edge gilt). London's eternally classic tale of Yukon Territory and the Klondike Gold Rush. We have priced this copy at about 1/4 the usual asking price for the second printing for three reasons: (1) the cloth of a small area of the lower spine next to the front board is worn through. (2) The last numbered leaf (p. 231 is chipped along the fore edge. (3) rear hinge is split. Also tideline (stain) inner corner of ffep. Former owner's name written in pencil on front paste down. Photos provided upon request
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Call of the Wild. Macmillan Co., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1903.
Price: US$123.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown boards in near fine shape. First edition, 7th printing (1931). His most famous book.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: This is a first edition, third printing August 1903. This book measures approximately 7.75" x 5", with 231 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board still full and vivid. Minor staining to rear board. Gilt top edge of textblock. Interior pages are clean. Lacking 3 plates at right edge of textblock. Wormhole affecting first 32 pages not affecting text. "The Call of the Wild" is a novel set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The main character of the story is a dog named Buck. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory number (O1-64).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Co. New York. 1903, 1903.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Green cloth with gold lettering on the cover and spine. Cover decorations showing scenes from the story, in black, white and red, on both cover and spine. Some fading to green cloth and some mild bumps to corners, but overall a nice clean binding. Very slightly shelf-cocked. Top edge gilt. Title page dated 1903. Copyright page dated July 1903 and then 'Reprinted July 1903.' No other printings listed. 231 pages + 2 pages of ads. Gutter is cracked at the back and linen backing quite weak there, as well. Page 97/98 detached but set in place. All the plates are present. Some mild toning to the pages from age. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that its an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Call of The Wild. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: This is a first edition, fourth printing. This book measures approximately 7.75" x 5", with 231 numbered pages. This book is in good minus condition. Moderate bumping and scuffing to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine slightly faded. Gilt lettering and design on front board still full and vivid. Moderate scuffing to rear board. Moderate bumping to all edges and corners to boards. Front and rear hinges cracked no mesh exposed. Previous owner's signature on opposite of title page. Interior pages are clean. "The Call of the Wild" is a novel set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The main character of the story is a dog named Buck. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory number (N12-76).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Jack London. The call of the wild. The Macmillan company, 1903.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: September 1903 4th printing in pictorial boards. Tight binding no marks, top edge gilt deckled for edge. Light corner bump. A66 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$356.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5th printing, 1904 date on title page. 25 cent Jack London stamp laid in. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, minor wear to corners. 1903 Hard Cover. 231, [3] pp., 2-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. Illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull throughout, including color frontispiece and several color plates. Original olive cloth, gilt titles, gilt top edge, black & red illustrations of sled dogs on front board & spine, decorated endpapers and chapter headings by Chas. Edw. Hooper. The classic story of a sled dog during the Yukon Gold Rush.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 231 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's green cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show modest scuffing with worn edges to the joints/edges. Text block has top edge gilt with moderate age toning to the fore/tail edges. Deckled fore edge. Pictorial end papers. Slight wear to the front hinge and cracking to the rear hinge. Ex-library markings interiorly. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Faint offsetting from frontispiece to the title page. Slight foxing and light soiling interiorly. Illustrated. Shaken binding impacted several pages. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Glass Case, Aisle 10 Endcap. 1376728. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
London, Jack; illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: September 1903 so later print of first edition. Green cloth with embossed front front cover. Corners show some moderate wear to corners and edges, two small bumps/scuff at bottom of front and back covers, some rubbing affecting two one inch by 3/8 inch areas. otherwise a nice copy overall, clean and attractive, with a solid binding. Front cover bright and attractive. Spine is a bit rubbed at top but presentable. Photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan and Company, New York, New York, 1903.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Cover is presents with edge wear, minor rubbing/fading with age, and four soil spots to back cover. FEP and half-title page have both completely separated from binding, but remain included with this copy. Original tissue over frontispiece remains intact. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, save for penned ownership on half-title page. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ninth printing. Bookplate on front fly, else a beautiful, fine copy with the white painted "snow" on the spine and front board especially bright, lacking the dust jacket. Along with *White Fang*, one of the two great novels for which the author seems destined to be remembered. His empathy for animals, combined with his appreciation of the Darwinian lessons of life, here overcome London's occasionally simplistic political agenda, resulting in a classic tale for both children and adults. A lovely copy of this relatively early printing, printed a little more than a year after the first printing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven grayish-blue cloth stamped brightly in white lettering on the front boards; with charming drawings of birds and flowers decorating the front panel. The spine is stamped brightly in gilt with designs as well. The top edges are gilded. With a touch of rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends; light wear to the corners. Veryclean and tight throughout, and printed on heavy, creamy white paper. No marks or names. With 3 pages of ads for Macmillan books at the back. Rather a scarce book, even with the authors' names on the title page. A collector's copy. The Kempton-Wace Letters presents a discussion of the philosophy of love and sex, written in the form of a series of letters between two men, "Herbert Wace," a young scientist, and "Dane Kempton," an elderly poet. Writer Jack London wrote "Wace's" letters, and Anna Strunsky wrote "Kempton's." In the late 19th century, the authors were part of a San Francisco radical literary group known as "The Crowd."Kempton makes the case for feeling and emotion, while Wace proceeds "scientifically" and analyzes love in Darwinian terms:"I purpose to order my affairs in a rational manner.Wherefore I marry Hester Stebbins. I am not impelled by the archaic sex madness of the beast, nor by the obsolescent romance madness of later-day man. I contract a tie which reason tells me is based upon health and sanity and compatibility. My intellect shall delight in that tie." Initially the public was piqued by the anonymity of the writers and the book was moderately successful. London biographer Russ Kingman praised the book; he quoted the Buffalo Commercial as admiring the "sheer charm of its prose" and saying the book "holds firmly its place in the front rank of the best of the season's publications. The New York Times was less charitable. It opened its review with the terse line, "The sex problem again." It complained that "Nothing that the scientist says is new, nothing that the poet says is new. The thing has been thrashed out some millions of times. Nor does the unnamed author infuse into either Wace or Kempton anything to give human personality or appeal. As a story [it] falls flat; as a discussion of a topic as old as interesting, as overworked."Joseph Noel says that George Sterling described London's portion of the book, as "a spiritual misprint, a typographical error half a volume long" and says "His vocabulary, in the letters of Herbert Wace, sounds as if taken that day from an encyclopedia by a conscientious sophomore."Biographers have been intrigued by The Kempton-Wace Letters for the light it seems to shed on Jack London's life and ideas. Strunsky was named as the co-respondent in Jack London's divorce from his first wife, Bessie, but biographers generally agree that his relation with the younger Strunsky was platonic. They were active in socialism and the literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco.In the novel, London expresses his theories about the "Mother-Woman" and the "Mate-Woman," roles which seem to correspond to the roles played by his first wife and his second. After London's death in 1916, Strunsky published a memoir in The Masses in 1917 about their relationship. (Wikipedia) John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passi
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
jack london. the call of the wild. the macmillan company, new york, 1903.
Price: US$508.50 + shipping
Description: third printing, 1903. early printing of the north american adventure novel told from the perspective of buck, a saint bernard sold into the sled dog industry. buck travels from california to seattle to alaska before his sledding journey along the yukon trail in canada. has been adapted for film several times, most recently in 2020. new york: the macmillan company. 8 x 5.65". 231 pages. hardcover. book condition: very good. 187/188 leaf loose.
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Jack London. Call of the Wild. Macmillan Co., 1903.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All illusrations present. Green cloth with black, white and brick cover illustration. Gold lettering. Spine cocked. Edges slightly rubbed. Minor spots. Smudge on pg. 159. Top of edges gilt.
Seller: Book Stop, Inc., Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
[London, Jack] [Strunsky, Anna]. The Kempton-Wace Letters. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [vi], 256pp, [3pp ads]. Green cloth, embellishments stamped in black on cover. Title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint rubbing to spine tips and corners, faint shelf wear. A bright, near fine example. This is the first printing, without the authors' names listed on title page; three pages of ads at the rear; and "Set up and electrotyped May, 1903" on copyright page. (Sisson & Martens 12) (BAL 11875) An attractive example. Jack London (1876-1916) was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity, London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television, most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. CALL OF THE WILD. MACMILLAN CO NY LONDON, 1903.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: JACK LONDON 'CALL OF THE WILD' JULY 1903 1ST ED. MACMILLAN CO NY LONDON ILLUSTRATIONS; PHILIP R GOODWIN & CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL. DECORATED BY C. E. HOOPER. NOTABLE MULTI COLORED EMBOSSED GREEN BOARDS, GOLD GILT TO SPINE/COVER. ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS & TITLE PAGE. Sig. on contents page, spine cracking/splitting. 231pp+ADS. Free domestic US Insured shipping of Books. Free domestic US shipping with Insurance. Oversized Books, Framed Art, Posters/Prints and International Packages cost of Shipping with Insurance To Be Determined. When paying with a credit card, AbeBooks External payment service fee will be requested for this item. The ipi House Archive Shop also allows payment by other methods; PayPal, etc. Thank you.
Seller: The ipi House Archive Shop, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Call of the Wild. Macmillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Chas. Edw. Hooper. Sound binding with medium bumping to all four corners. Fraying to head of spine and softening/small chips to tail. Cloth is worn along top and bottom panel edges, corners rubbed. Some mild rubbing to cover and spine decoration. Previous owner's name and date on half-title page. Some foxing to endpapers; edge toning to title page. Color frontispiece is partially detached from the binding and shows a very fine vertical crack along inner edge; the illustration itself has two small chips which have attached themselves to the tissue guard. Tiny stains to endpapers, small spot of soiling to page 10 and facing page. Text and images unmarked. 8vo. 231pp. Additional photos upon request.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 231, [2, ads] pp. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's vertically-ribbed dark green cloth stamped in white, black, and red, lettered in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good or better, edge-rubbed, spine lettering and stamping dulled, some rubbing to "snow" on front board but less than is often found. Front hinge cracked but holding, name written on verso of front free endpaper. A nice copy of Jack London's breakout novel, narrated from the perspective of a dog named Buck.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven grayish-blue cloth stamped brightly in white lettering on the front boards; with charming drawings of birds and flowers decorating the front panel. The spine is stamped brightly in gilt with designs as well. The top edges are gilded. With a touch of rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends; light wear to the corners. Clean and tight throughout, and printed on heavy, creamy white paper. One name written in green on the front endpaper as well as another previous owner's initials and the date of Aug. 21, 1903. With 3 pages of ads for Macmillan books at the back. Rather a scarce book, especially without the authors' names on the title page or anywhere else. A collector's copy. The Kempton-Wace Letters presents a discussion of the philosophy of love and sex, written in the form of a series of letters between two men, "Herbert Wace," a young scientist, and "Dane Kempton," an elderly poet. Writer Jack London wrote "Wace's" letters, and Anna Strunsky wrote "Kempton's." In the late 19th century, the authors were part of a San Francisco radical literary group known as "The Crowd."Kempton makes the case for feeling and emotion, while Wace proceeds "scientifically" and analyzes love in Darwinian terms:"I purpose to order my affairs in a rational manner.Wherefore I marry Hester Stebbins. I am not impelled by the archaic sex madness of the beast, nor by the obsolescent romance madness of later-day man. I contract a tie which reason tells me is based upon health and sanity and compatibility. My intellect shall delight in that tie." Initially the public was piqued by the anonymity of the writers and the book was moderately successful. London biographer Russ Kingman praised the book; he quoted the Buffalo Commercial as admiring the "sheer charm of its prose" and saying the book "holds firmly its place in the front rank of the best of the season's publications. The New York Times was less charitable. It opened its review with the terse line, "The sex problem again." It complained that "Nothing that the scientist says is new, nothing that the poet says is new. The thing has been thrashed out some millions of times. Nor does the unnamed author infuse into either Wace or Kempton anything to give human personality or appeal. As a story [it] falls flat; as a discussion of a topic as old as interesting, as overworked."Joseph Noel says that George Sterling described London's portion of the book, as "a spiritual misprint, a typographical error half a volume long" and says "His vocabulary, in the letters of Herbert Wace, sounds as if taken that day from an encyclopedia by a conscientious sophomore."Biographers have been intrigued by The Kempton-Wace Letters for the light it seems to shed on Jack London's life and ideas. Strunsky was named as the co-respondent in Jack London's divorce from his first wife, Bessie, but biographers generally agree that his relation with the younger Strunsky was platonic. They were active in socialism and the literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco.In the novel, London expresses his theories about the "Mother-Woman" and the "Mate-Woman," roles which seem to correspond to the roles played by his first wife and his second. After London's death in 1916, Strunsky published a memoir in The Masses in 1917 about their relationship. (Wikipedia) John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy of the book, lacking the original dust jacket. First printing, July, 1903 stated on the copyright page. White paint a bit rubbed on the front board. Housed in a custom red quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. A Klondike Gold Rush adventure novel told from the point of view of the dog Buck, The Call of the Wild is also a consideration of the thin line that separates "civilized" creatures from their primal origins. Though he begins life as the pampered and much-loved pet of a California gentleman, Buck is stolen and forced into service as a sled dog in the Alaska Yukon. The lowest member of his pack, Buck faces abuse from his incompetent human owners as well as violence within his team as the dogs jockey for higher positions that aide their survival. Ultimately, Buck must relinquish his individualistic tameness to find his place as a trustworthy team leader and he must tap into the most primitive tendencies that lay dormant inside him. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Jack London. THE CALL OF THE WILD. MacMillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$3745.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing along panel edges. Corners lightly bumped. Light staining on spine. Light foxing on FEP. Front hinge starting. Illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Publisher's promotional pamphlet laid in. Small leather bookplate of Neva and Guy Littell on the front pastedown. A little rubbing to the painted "snow" on the spine and front board else a bright, just about fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Laid into this copy is a Typed Letter Signed from Rockwell Kent on his Ausable Forks stationery to Guy Littell, head of R.R. Donnelley and Sons, dated 25 March 1929, which reads in full: "Dear Mr. Littell: Even before any consideration of the book that you have suggested to me to illustrate, let me express my appreciation of the indulgence you show in considering the continuance of any relations with so rank a procrastinator. I am going to try to have learned one lesson from this experience and make no plans ahead. In evidence of this let me assure you that I am concentrating upon Moby Dick and sending Mr. Kittredge, by this same mail, a big package of drawings. I have not read the 'Call of the Wild,' but will do so. Faithfully yours, Rockwell Kent." We infer from this that Littell suggested that Kent illustrate *The Call of the Wild*, a commission Kent ultimately did not accept. One of the two great novels, along with *White Fang*, for which the author seems destined to be remembered. His empathy for animals, combined with his appreciation of the Darwinian lessons of life, overcome London's occasionally simplistic political agenda, resulting in a classic tale for both children and adults.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. The Call of the Wild.. , 1903.
Price: US$6577.54 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903.In-8 de 231 pp. y compris (1) f. de garde illustré et 15 gravures à pleine page, (2) ff. d'annonces.Toile illustrée d'origine. Etui.192 x 130 mm. --- Edition originale de ce roman d'aventures de Jack London dont l'action se déroule à l'époque de la ruée vers l'or.Jack London s'embarqua en 1897 pour participer à la ruée vers l'or du Klondike. Atteint du scorbut, il fut rapatrié et commença alors à écrire en s'inspirant de son expérience dans le Grand Nord canadien. Il obtint une reconnaissance avec Le Fils du loup, mais le véritable succès arriva avec L'Appel de la forêt (The Call of the Wild) en 1903.« Récit de l'écrivain nord-américain Jack London (1876-1916) publié en 1903. Dans le Sud tempéré, le chien Buck, né du croisement d'un Saint-Bernard et d'un Berger écossais, est la maître incontesté de la maison et de la ferme du juge Miller. Mais, dans l'automne 1894, quand la découverte des gisements aurifères du Klondike attire vers les terres froides de l'Alaska des hommes provenant de toutes les parties du globe, Buck est vendu et envoyé dans le Nord. Là, privé de caresses et de considération, au milieu d'un pays hostile et sauvage, il est contraint à subir la bastonnade, à supporter le harnais et à tirer le traineau postal du gouverneur canadien ; ses muscles se font durs comme fer, l'instinct primordial des vieilles générations se réveille en lui, son aboiement devient ?le cri inarticulé de la lutte pour la vie' [?] Durant les longues pérégrinations au cours desquelles il accompagne Thornton à la recherche d'une mine abandonnée, Buck sent renaître en lui, toujours plus fort, l'instinct slavique qui le pousse vers la forêt et le loup, ?son frère sauvage'. Son seul amour pour son maître le retient parmi les hommes ; et quand Thornton meurt, assassiné par des Indiens, il rejoint ses frères sauvages et court, à leurs côtés, hurlant le chant des premiers jours du m /// New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903.8vo [192 x 130 mm] of 231 pp. including (1) illustrated endpaper and 15 full-page engravings, (2) ll. of adverts. Original illustrated cloth. Slipcase. --- First edition of this adventure novel by Jack London which action takes place during the gold rush era.Jack London embarked in 1897 in order to take part in the Klondike's gold rush. Suffering from scurvy, he was repatriated and began to write taking his inspiration from his experience in the Canadian Far North. He received recognition with The Son of The Wolf but success truly came with The Call of the Wild in 1903."A story by the North American writer Jack London (1876-1916) published in 1903. In the temperate South, the dog Buck, an interbreeding between a St. Bernard and a Scottish Shepherd, is the undisputed master of Judge Miller's home and farm. But in the autumn of 1894, when the discovery of the Klondike's gold deposits draws men from all over the world to the cold lands of Alaska, Buck is sold and sent north. There, deprived of strokes and consideration, in the midst of a hostile and savage country, he is forced to endure beating, to bear the harness and to pull the Canadian governor's mail sled; his muscles become as hard as iron, the primordial instinct of the old generations awakens in him, his bark becomes 'the inarticulate cry of the struggle for life' [.] During the long wanderings in which he accompanies Thornton in search of an abandoned mine, Buck feels the Slavic instinct within him grow stronger and stronger, driving him towards the forest and the wolf, 'his wild brother'. His love for his master alone keeps him among men; and when Thornton dies, murdered by Indians, he joins his wild brothers and runs, alongside them, howling the song of the world's first days. The Call of the Wild' is the first of Jack London's books to reveal the author's belief in biological evolution and the omnipotence of the environment; but, although it illustrates a the
Seller: Librairie Camille Sourget, Paris, France
LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. MacMillan Co, New York, 1903.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, in dustjacket with variant lettering at base of spine. Decorations by Charles Edward Hooper and illustrated by Phillip Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. London's classic north country adventure novel. Uncommon in dustjacket. Near Fine, mild wear at spine ends and cover corners, contemporary date in ink at verso of frontis, in attractive Very Good dustjacket, split at front spine edge but rather seamlessly mended at verso with archival tape, nick at top front panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
[LONDON, Jack].. The Kempton-Wace Letters. INSCRIBED. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903., 1903.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue, without the author's names on the title page. 8vo. Original gray/blue cloth, with front decoratively stamped in black in an all over floral design and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut (front hinge a little cracked), else a fine, bright copy. 256 pages. Enclosed in an old worn slipcase. Inscribed by Jack London with a quote from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on the front free endpaper: "To dear Charles Warren Stoddard* - 'Indeed, indeed, Repentance /oft before / I swore - but was I / sober when I swore?' / Jack London / The Bungalow /June 6, 1903". Issued very early in his career - in fact, in the same year are his now classic "The Call of the Wild" - "The Kempton-Wace Letters" was a collaborative novel consisting of the epistolary discussion of the philosophy of love, written anonymously by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. *Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), California poet and author of many travel narratives. After journeying to Hawaii and Tahiti, he wrote South-Sea Idylls (1873), Hawaiian Life (1894), and The Lepers of Molokai (1885); Jack London borrowed the last title for an article in Woman's Home Companion, January 1908. From 1889 to 1902 Stoddard was professor of English at the Catholic University of America. As evidenced by London's breezy letters to the older Stoddard, the two appear to have been on quite friendly terms. In one letter from 1900, London - referring to Stoddard's books on the South Seas - writes: "You are responsible. You have sown the seeds of unrest in me."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. MacMillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition (correct statement on copyright page) in a very good original dust jacket that is unrestored, rare thus. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
JACK LONDON. THE CALL OF THE WILD. The Macmillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$12995.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing Beautiful bright, clean book with the striking extremely scarce dust jacket in near fine condition. The Call of the Wild is ?one of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from the sheltered environment of civilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the early part of the century this was considered the American dream? (Parker, 16). The book is in beautiful condition for this title with green boards and unfaded bright gilt titles to the front and spine (along with the stunning images of the dog sled). The book has sharp corners with one very tiny tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The scenic end papers are clean with no inscriptions, no book plates and no bookstore stamps. The original tissue guard is still present. The interior pages are clean, bright and flat with No handling marks, No stains, No bent pages, and No writing. Rough cut page edges to the outer page block with strong unfaded gilt top stain. An overall solid, superb clean copy of this title. Please see images. The original first edition jacket has benefited from very slight restoration to the outer spine, corner tips (not affecting the lettering) by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition. The jacket has beautiful even tones with no edgewear, no chips, no rubbing, no rips, no fading and no foxing. Striking dust jacket! Please see detailed images. A very handsome example of this title with the stunning extremely scarce dust jacket. Presents beautifully on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other important rare book titles.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of one of the best-loved works of American literature, in scarce original dust jacket. Jack London's animal fiction has captured the hearts and imaginations of generations of Americans. A socialist, animal activist, and eugenicist, London was a complex man who participated in unemployment protests and the Alaskan Gold Rush. The working dogs of Alaska clearly left an impression on him, leading to several pieces of canine literature, the most famous of which is CALL OF THE WILD. Published in 1903, CALL OF THE WILD hit the shelves in the second year of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency; Americans were hungry for the outdoors and red-blooded adventure stories. With its narrative of civilization pitted against instinct, the title was enthusiastically received by critics, and was an immediate hit. Brooklyn Daily Eagle reviewers note that London "does not make the mistake of endowing his [dog] hero with superhuman qualities of intelligence and cunning," praising his handling of the plot as "strikingly novel." A true classic, in remarkable condition. 7.75'' x 5''. Original decorated green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated endpapers of a dog team and mountain scene. Pictorial title page printed in black and blue. Full-page color frontispiece, 10 full-page color plates, and a number of full-page landscapes in printed blue; smaller blue and color illustrations throughout. "Set up, electrotyped, and published July, 1903" on copyright page (BAL). 232 pages with one leaf of ads to rear. With folded leaflet from Macmillan advertising this and other titles loosely laid in. Housed in custom cloth clamshell box. Dust jacket with a bit of chipping to spine head, not affecting title; two small spots of soil to front panel. Binding with mild edgewear, corners and spine ends lightly bumped; leaves with occasional tiny spots of soil. Vibrant.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. The Macmillan Company, 1903.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: a significant book in poor condition, hardcover in green boards with three panel illustration on front cover board and dog illustration on spine between titles, interesting inscription by Jack London dated 1903 on FEP to someone who had helped him with this classic work, bookplate of Brooklyn Friends School opposite inscription inside front cover board, book appears to have been personalized by Harry Preston whose period signature appears on front fly and whose initials are scratched into rear cover board (ouch!), frontispiece with tissue guard and remaining other 10 colored illustrations are present, front half title page has been cut out and laid in, page 97 is loose and laid in, under the title on the Hal color illustration the word Hell has been handwritten in the same size lettering, binding has a slight lean, see close-up photo of period signature where original signature has been partially erased, rear inner hinge starting
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan Company, New York, 1903.
Price: US$28500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A touch of rubbing at the bottom of the boards, easily fine with the white painted "snow" on the spine and front board especially bright in a lovely, fine dust jacket with the slightest of rubbing, strong and supple at the folds, and devoid of the usual professional restoration. Housed in a custom quarter green morocco and cloth clamshell case. Along with *White Fang*, one of the two great novels for which the author seems destined to be remembered. His empathy for animals, combined with his appreciation of the Darwinian lessons of life, here overcome London's occasionally simplistic political agenda, resulting in a classic tale for both children and adults. A superior copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.