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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Editoin. Original green, checkered wool, near fine with several moth holes to spine area and some on book case. Both bookcase and book are bound with a green checkered wool over board. Contains no writing, overall a very neat and complete copy.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine unread condition green and white ceramic-like pattern boards, dark green leather spine, and gold spine lettering enclosed within a black and gold block border. Includes Introduction by Pierre Berton. Illustrated with full-page color plates by Henry Varnum Poor. Also includes the accompanying Number VII: 25 issue of The Heritage Club Sandglass, which beautifully goes into specifics regarding the biography of the author, illustrator, book designer, etc. A small round former owner blind stamp at the lower right corner of the half title page. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "The Call of the Wild, published in 1903, is a story set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush - a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of California as the story opens. Stolen frm his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he reverts to atavistic traits. Buck is forced to adjust to, and survive, cruel treatments and fight to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and lessons he learns, to emerge as a leader in the wild. London lived for most of a year in the Yukon collecting material for the book. The story was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903; a month later it was released in book form. The novel's great popularity and success made a reputation for London. Much of its appeal derives from the simplicity with which London presents the themes in an almost mythical form. As early as 1908 the story was adapted to film and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations." - from Amazon dot com general review.
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. Call of the Wild. With an introduction by Pierre Berton and illust. , 1960.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. With an Introduction by Pierre Berton and Illustrations by Henry Varnum Poor. Large 4to. Orig. tartan cloth in tartan slipcase. Los Angeles: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Ward Ritchie Press, 1960. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. THE CALL OF THE WILD. Limited Editions Club, Los Angeles, 1960.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in full green-and-black plaid wool "mackinaw" shirting with a leather label on the spine. The slipcase is also covered in the same lumberman's shirting material. Introduction by Pierre Berton. Illustrated with line-and-wash drawings by Henry Varnum Poor. Printed at the press of Ward Ritchie. Copy #562 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Handling this most unusual binding, one is tempted to look for buttons. Slight sunning to the spine. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. xv, [1], 158, [2] pp. Colour illustrated title, colour plates, colour vignettes. Publisher's green & black wool mackinaw plaid, leather spine label, w/ glassine d.j. (minor chipping, creasing), w/ open-backed publisher's slipcase also wrapped in green & black wool mackinaw plaid (very minor shelfwear), still NF/VG/NF copy, signed & numbered by artist on colophon at rear. First Limited Editions Club edition, signed & numbered 591 of 1500 copies, of this classic dog adventure story set during the Klondike gold rush. Poor (1887-1970) was a noted California landscape and figure painter, also known for his murals. LEC, 308.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. THE CALL OF THE WILD. Limited Editions Club, Los Angeles, 1960.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in full green-and-black plaid wool "mackinaw" shirting with a leather label on the spine. The slipcase is also covered in the same lumberman's shirting material. Introduction by Pierre Berton. Illustrated with line-and-wash drawings by Henry Varnum Poor. Printed at the press of Ward Ritchie. Copy #1351 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Handling this most unusual binding, one is tempted to look for buttons. Monthly Letter laid in. Slight sunning to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase, not often found in this condition
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1960.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, bound in full green-and-black plaid wool "mackinaw" shirting with a leather label on the spine. The slipcase is also covered in the same lumberman's shirting material. Introduction by Pierre Berton. Illustrated with line-and-wash drawings by Henry Varnum Poor. Printed at the press of Ward Ritchie. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Poor the on the colophon page. A striking publication.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.