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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing, with no further printings noted on the copyright page. Green cloth covers, illustrated in black, white and red, with gilt lettering. Some loss of color the red sky and white snow. Bumping to the extremities, slight lean to the text block. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers, with the name and address of an early owner in a large, childish hand. All plates present, including frontispiece and title page, separated by their tissue guard. 231, [1], 2 pages advertisements. BAL11876.

Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London. The story is set during the Klondike Gold Rush and follows a domesticated dog named Buck, who is stolen from his home and sold into the brutal life of an Alaskan sled dog.

Contains 18 full-page color illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull.