Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
London, Jack.. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early edition, in fair to good condition. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover is green cloth with red lettering, image of man and dog on the top board. Cover shows heavy rubbing, minor wear and tear to the corners and spine ends, bumped corners. Pages are tanned with some underlining to the text.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE SON OF THE WOLF.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1900), 1900.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Early printing. London's first book, a collection of nine stories set in the Far North. Glossy frontispiece by Maynard Dixon with tissue guard. 251 pp. Very good in a contemporary or early half leather binding - blue cloth with tan leather, gilt titling on the spine and tooling to the edges of the leather, bluegreen marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. (other Jack London first editions in matching binding available). Some rubbing to the corners and sides of the spine, binding cracked between p 250-251, but overall a sturdy and attractive copy.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Jack. London. THE SON OF THE WOLF.. Houghton, Mifflin and Company January 1900, 1900.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Early edition. Dark green cloth covered boards with cream background and dark green text and silhouettes of hunter and his dog on the cover. Published by Houghton, Mifflin. Houghton is listed on both the title page and at the bottom of the spine. No date except the 1900 copyright. Frontispiece by J. Maynard Dixon. Corners worn, as well as the top and bottom of the spine. Previous owner's property stamp on front endpage. Riverside Press logo on title page. 1/4 inch rectangle cut out of the spine.
Seller: Bookends, Hutchinson, KS, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Son of The Wolf. Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1900.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Son of the Wolf" by Jack London. Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1900, first American edition, second issue. Book in very good condition, with trivial wear at edges, some fading to grey on board, some pulling. Rare debut work by Jack London.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
London, Jack.. THE SON OF THE WOLF.. Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1900), Boston and NY, 1900.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bright green pictorial cloth with title and illustration of trapper and dog outlined in cream; octavo; (252) pp followed by blank leaf. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. Moderate rubbing to cover design, minor wear to edges of covers, but very good. Collation differs from the 3 printings of the first edition described in BAL. This printing has the most regular collation with all gatherings in 8s; the last page of text independent of the last gathering and contiguous with the final blank leaf. Cover design is the same as BAL first edition, third printing "new style" binding though that issue has the title blocked in red on the front cover. The ampersand in the publisher's imprint at foot of spine is a typographic oddity bearing little resemblance to an actual ampersand. BAL 11869; Sisson/Martens page 2.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.93 + shipping
Description: 20 : 13 cm. 2 blanc leaves, frontispiece by Maynard Dixon, title, 2 leaves, 251 pages, 1 blanc leaf. Original grey clothwith a crisp and complete silver lettering and the silver belt with buckle bisecting the front and rear boards asnd spine. First ? edition. - Jack London's first book. - Frontispiece tiped-in (not sewn), as well as the misplaced comma following the year , 1900, on copyright page (corrected with a period on subsequent printings). No broken type on page 147 (perfect "e" in spruce and perfect "T" in might). Publisher's imprint at bottom of spine: Houghton, Miffin & Co. - Book-block somewhat a bit loosened, edges a bit rubbed.
Seller: Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Austria
Jack London. The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North. Houghton Mifflin and Co, 1900.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London's first book. First edition, later state with dots sandwiching the ampersand at the bottom of the spine. Covers worn. Bookplate inside front cover.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$662.52 + shipping
Description: 251pp. 8vo. Original cloth with silver decoration. Name on ffe. Frontis. A singularly bright copy. First Edition. Issue with full stops around ampersand on spine and full stop after date on copyright page.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
London, Jack. Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1900.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Short stories. Author's first book. First edition, second or third issue. Dark gray cloth covers with silver titles and belt design, corners and spine ends bumped, silver decorations a little rubbed. Some smudges on the endpapers, some other finger smudges through the text, otherwise the interior is clean and the binding is TIGHT, pages are toned, edges of the book block are darkened. As to points: date 1900 on the title page; the ampersand on the spine has dots before and after; the date 1900 on the cr page has a period after it; page 147, no broken type; no stubs between pages 6 & 7; page 10-11 sheet appears to be a cancel and has a little split at the bottom; 16 pages per signature; two blank endpapers at the rear. Super copy.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE SON OF THE WOLF.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston & NY, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Original greenish-black cloth with silver belt design and lettering in silver and greenish-black, octavo, (252) pp. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. Second issue collation per BAL 11869, Sisson & Martens page 2. Second issue ampersand in publisher's imprint on spine. Frontispiece sewn in, corrected punctuation on copyright page. Previous owner name and date (1902) on front free enpaper, else a fine copy
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in gray cloth with silver bely-buckle decoration, and silver 'clasps' at the corners. Some rubbing at the corners and edges of the boards has dulled the silver decorations and worn the cloth. Silver lettering on the spine also somewhat rubbed. Title page dated 1900. Copyright page also dated 1900. 251 pages. Text block tight, corners square. Ever-so-slightly shelf cocked. Pages toned from age. Pages 99-115 have bumped upper corners, with some small loss of paper, but never extending more than a scant quarter inch from the corner. Hardly noticeable when the book is closed. Ownership name on the inside front cover, in pencil. Bookplate on the free endpaper. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Page edges a bit dusty (as opposed to bright and white) as expected. This is the first edition of Jack London's first book. Publication points are a bit confusing for this title, as you will see different things listed in different listings.This copy seems have all the earliest (best) points. Namely: Ampersand on the spine does NOT have periods on either side of it. Copyright page DOES have the COMMA present after the date (later changed to a period). Frontispiece illustration TIPPED IN (not sewn). On page 147, the final words of the final two lines "spruce" and "might" are perfect and unbroken. Those seem to be the primary points to indicate a first printing; if there are others you'd like me to check on, please ask. Contains The While Silence, The Son of the Wolf, The Men of Forty-Mile, In a Far Country, To the Man on Trial, The Priestly Prerogative, The Wisdom of the Trail, The Wife of a King, An Odyssey of the North. This is the first book appearance of all of these stories - they were all published in periodicals previously. London was only 24 when this was published. According to the BAL, there were only 2,028 copies of this first printing, printed in March of 1900. It was printed again in July and September. This it the earliest, preferred, printing. Please email with questions or to request photos. Please note if there is a photograph beside this listing, it was put there by ABE, not by me, so it may not accurately show the book I am selling.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1900.
Price: US$999.98 + shipping
Description: Light rubbing to corners and spine ends.; Gray cloth stamped in silver on covers and spine. First edition of London's first book. ; 8vo; 251 pages Very Good Ink name and number front endpapers.
Seller: Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First edition, first printing without the stops on either side of the ampersand on the spine and with a comma, rather than a full-stop, following 1900 on the copyright page, frontispiece, original dark grey cloth printed with silver, neat ownership signatures of Amy L. Cadogan-Ogg, occasional small internal marks, slight soiling and rubbing to covers
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Embossed Cloth With Silver. First Trade Issue, Mixed States. (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After The Front Free Endpaper, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf Before The Rear Free Endpaper. Stub Between Pp 10 And 11. Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin.&.Co. With Periods Around Ampersand, And Ampersand Is An Odd Design [Both Indications Of A Second Or Third Printing). (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Of Second Printing, 1004 Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For The First Binding : 1. Perfect (&) On Spine (Not Present Here, At Least Design Is Not Standard Ampersand But Also Not Defective, Just A Different Symbol); 2. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And Perfect "T" In "Might" In The Bottom Two Lines, Page 147 (Present Here, And Henry's Second And Third States And Later Issues Have Imperfect Letters); 3. No Stub Between Pp 6-7 (As In This Example, Which Has Stub Between Pp 10 And 11); 4. Sets Of Binding Threads Between Pp 6-7, 18-19, 30-31, And Every Six Leaves To 246-247 (Not Present Here, This Example Having Binding Threads Between Pp. 2 And 3, 18 And 19, Etc). The First State Requires A Comma After Copyright Date, Now Considered A Simple Distinguishing Point Of The First State, But There Is A Period In This Example. Lastly, The Type On Pp. 65 Is Partially Broken ("Flight" And "Perfect" Only, And Less So Than Some Other Issues). An Attractive Near Fine Book With Very Slight Rubbing At Corners, No Previous Owner's Names Or Other Markings. Altogether A Very Nice Example In The Type Ii Binding Except Not A Broken Ampersand, Just An Odd Symbol, And With Sheets (Other Than Period On Copyright Page) Retaining First Printing Points.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Embossed Cloth With Silver. First Trade Printing, Mixed States. (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After The Front Free Endpaper, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf Before The Rear Free Endpaper. Stub Between Pp 10 And 11. Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin &Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand, And Ampersand Is An Odd Design [Both Indications Of A Second Or Third Printing). (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Of Second Printing, 1004 Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For The First Binding : 1. Perfect (&) On Spine (Not Present Here, At Least Design Is Not Standard Ampersand But Also Not Defective, Just A Different Symbol); 2. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And Perfect "T" In "Might" In The Bottom Two Lines, Page 147 (Not Present Here, And Henry's Second And Third States And Later Issues Have Imperfect Letters); 3. No Stub Between Pp 6-7 ( In This Example, Stub Is Present); 4. Sets Of Binding Threads Between Pp 6-7, 18-19, 30-31, And Every Six Leaves To 246-247 (Not Present Here, This Example Having Binding Threads Between Before P. 1, Between 12 And 13, 24 And 25, Etc). The First State Requires A Comma After Copyright Date, Now Considered A Simple Distinguishing Point Of The First State, But There Is A Period In This Example. Lastly, The Type On Pp. 65 And 67 Is Partially Broken ("Flight" And "Perfect" But Less So Than Some Other Issues). The Binding, With Odd "&" Sign But Without Dots On Either Side, Has Not Been Bibliographically Described To Our Knowledge; The Absence Of The Dots Is A Characteristic Only Of The First Printing, But The Presence Of The Imperfect "&" Sign As Here Is An Indication Of A Later Printing. An Attractive Near Fine Book With Very Slight Rubbing At Corners, No Previous Owner's Names Or Other Markings. Altogether A Very Nice Example In The An Intermediate Type I/Type Ii Binding. Most Bibliographers State That True Priority Of Various Issues Is Not Established, Although The First Binding Is Thought To Be Established; But So Many Variant And Mixtures Of Variants Turn Up, It May Be That Every Surviving Copy Is A Part Of A Small Group Of Copies Different In Some Way From A Large Number Of Small Groups Of Other Copies.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, [i-viii], [1]- 251pp, [2]. Greenish-black cloth, title in silver on spine. This is Trail Binding Variant B, State 1, with the imprint on spine stating "Houghton / Mifflin & Co." without periods on either side of the ampersand. All known dated copies from April 1900 are Trial Binding Variant B. Slight lean to text block, silver stamping rubbed. Spine cracked at flyleaves, but binding is solid. Includes frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down. (Sisson & Martens 1) (BAL 11869) (Woodbridge 1). The Son of the Wolf was Jack London's first published novel. From March 27 - July 18, 1900, 2028 copies of the first issue of The Son of the Wolf were printed. The second printing consisted of 1010 copies, printed after July 13, 1900. This copy belonged to Howard B. Odell and is dated April 21st, 1900, only 25 days after the first copies were bound in cloth.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1900.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, first issue text, first state binding. Near Fine with slight spine lean, tape ghosts to endpapers, small spot to cloth at rear gutter. Jack Londonââ â¢s first book; one of 2,028 originally printed as per Sisson & Martens.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very handsomely bound in finely woven slate gray cloth with a crisp and complete silver lettering and the silver belt with buckle bisecting the front and rear boards and the spine. Very clean and crisp and striking. With clean, crisp silver corner motifs on the front boards as well.The top right-hand corner lightly bumped. Stamped very brightly in gilt lettering on the spine. With the merest touch of rubbing to the extremities. Very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread and fresh as if it just came from the publisher's. A splendid first edition of Jack London's first book, and rather scarce as only 2,028 copies of the first edition were printed. As for the issue points: According to Woodbridge, this is the first issue with the perfect e & t in price and might on the bottom 2 lines of 147. No stub between pages 6-7. The Publishers imprint at the bottom of the spine appears to be state 2. The frontispiece illustration is titled MALEMUTE KID HALTED HIM (p. 64) is protected by a tissue guard. Dots flank the & at the bottom of the spine; with a period after 1900 on the copyright page. Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. The Son of the Wolf, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. (Goodreads) 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 passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposés The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1900 on the title and copyright pages; no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. The son of the wolf. Houghton, Mifflin and Co, Boston, 1900.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece inserted, tissue guard present. Publisher's greenish-black cloth with silver belt design, with the dots surrounding the "&" at the bottom of the spine. An excellent copy. First edition, second printing according to BAL. This is London's first book, a group of nine stories set in the Yukon. This work brought him "national fame for his Kiplingesque portrayal of the brutal, vigorous life of the Far North" (Hart, 490).
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1900.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 251 pp. Neat non-authorial gift inscription on the second leaf, else very near fine in full decorated cloth, that is lightly rubbed. The slate gray binding with silver stamping, Woodbridge 1 (no priority).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, first issue. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. [vi], 251, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Issue of Jack London's First Book. BAL 11869; Woodbridge 1 first issue binding with no dots around the ampersand. Publisher's decorative silver and gray cloth Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. [vi], 251, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
London, Jack.. THE SON OF THE WOLF.. Houghton Mifflin and Co: Boston., 1900.
Price: US$1725.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inserted frontis illustr, 8 x 5, gray cloth with silver-stamped decorations (belt and corners), 251 pp, covers moderately worn, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, hinges loose, pp browned, some loosening of text block, ink signed and dated comment on front fly, spine a little cocked else a nicely preserved copy of the FIRST ED, FIRST PRINTING OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. (With 1900 on title page, comma after 1900 on copyright page, no dots around and on spine, 6 leaf gatherings). In mismatched brown cloth slipcase.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack. Son of the Wolf. Tales of the Far North. , 1900.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: LONDON, Jack. The Son of the Wolf. Tales of the Far North. Orig. gray cloth stamped in silver. Frontis. Boston & N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900. First edition of the author's first book. BAL 11869. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston & New York, 1900.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AuthorÕs 1st published book, Greenish black cloth stamped in silver in Good condition w small stain on back, Book in Very Good to Good+ condition
Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Jack London. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy in Decorative Gray Cloth With Silver Band. First Edition With All First Issue Points Rare In This Condition. Gorgeous Fresh Copy. The Author's First Book.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Son of the Wolf. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1900.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the comma after the year 1900 on copyright page. Later issues have punctuation corrected with a period. A beautiful copy of this First Issue binding without small dots on either side of the ampersand in the publisher's spine imprint. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After Front Free Endpaper, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf Before Rear Free Endpaper. (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Of Second Printing, 1004 Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Embossed Slate Grey Cloth With Silver. Near Fine. First Trade Printing, First Issue, First State On All Known Points. Collation: 1(4), 3-22 (6) As Required For First Printing. Binding With Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin & Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand, The State #1 Per Woodbridge, (No Known Priority.) Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For The First Binding : 1. Perfect (&) On Spine; 2. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And Perfect "T" In "Might" In The Bottom Two Lines, Page 147 (Henry's Second And Third States And Later Issues Have Imperfect Letters, But Some Copies With Second State Binding And Period After Date On Copyright Page Also Exist); 3. No Stub Between Pp 6-7 (Also Seen On Some Copies In Second State Binding And With Period After Date On Copyright Page; 4. Sets Of Binding Threads Between Pp 6-7, 18-19, 30-31, And Every Six Leaves To 246-247. . Consistent With Recent Bibliographic Information, There Is A Comma After Copyright Date, Apparently A Simple Distinguishing Point Of The First State Of The Title Page Of This First Edition. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And "T" In "Might" Bottom Two Lines, Page 147. Lastly, The Type On Pp. 65 And 67 Is Unbroken But Ink Is Missing In A Straight Thin Line Extending Through Three Words Near Bottom Of P. 65, "Flight", "Perfect", And "Exist", As If A Wire Had Lain Across The Type; Copies Also Exist With Perfect Type But Second Binding And With Period After Date On Copyright Page. An Attractive Near Fine Book In All Earliest States [Aside From Some Rare Preliminary Bindings] With Some Rubbing At Corners, No Previous Owner's Names Or Other Markings, And Scarce Thus.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Embossed Cloth With Silver. First Trade Printing, First Issue, First State On All Known Points. (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Copies Of Second Printing, 1004 Copies Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Collation: 1(4), 3-22 (6) As Required For First Printing. Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin & Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand, The State #1 Per Woodbridge, No Known Priority.) Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For The First Binding : 1. Perfect (&) On Spine; 2. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And Perfect "T" In "Might" In The Bottom Two Lines, Page 147 (Henry's Second And Third States And Later Issues Have Imperfect Letters); 3. No Stub Between Pp 6-7; 4. Sets Of Binding Threads Between Pp 6-7, 18-19, 30-31, And Every Six Leaves To 246-247. All Of These Points Are Present In This Copy. Consistent With More Recent Bibliographic Information, There Is A Comma After Copyright Date, A Simple Distinguishing Point Of The First State. Lastly, The Type On Pp. 65 And 67 Is Unbroken. An Attractive Near Fine Book With Very Slight Rubbing At Corners, No Previous Owner's Names Or Other Markings, And Quite Scarce Thus.This Copy With The Original Bookseller's Label From W.F. Purnell, Sacramento, Circa 1900.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
London, Jack. Son of the Wolf. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1900.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing in a First Issue binding without the periods around ampersand on the spine. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Jack London on a laid in check. The book is in excellent condition with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by the author of this TRUE FIRST EDITION. We buy London First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.