Description
First Grosset & Dunlap edition of The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
Octavo, 211pp, [3pp ads]. Brown cloth, title and embellishments in green on front cover and spine. Black and white illustration affixed to front cover. Solid text block, light wear to edges, faint transference on endpapers. Previous owner’s name in pencil on front free endpaper. Black and white photographic frontispiece. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, some loss to front panel. Chipping to edges, light soiling to panels, short closed tears to top edge, wear along spine edges and flap folds. A scarce 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.
