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Octavo, 231pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's decorative green cloth, title in gilt with color illustrations on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. The first printing with "Set up, electrotyped, and published July, 1903" on copyright page and one leaf of ads at rear. Solid text block, bumped corners, light soiling to cloth, some rubbing to color illustrations on cover and spine. Clean text throughout. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Complete with ten full-page colored plates, including a frontispiece protected with tissue. (BAL 11876) (Sisson 14) Housed in a custom orange cloth chemise, title in gilt over orange and green morocco spine.

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.