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1903 First Edition
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Description

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped white, black, and red, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Near Fine with amateur repair to headcap, slight lean to binding, minor rubbing, and light soiling to cloth. Former owner name and date to title page and contents lightly toned with modest soiling to margins. A handsome copy of this enduring work of adventure fiction set during the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush, with the "snow" stamping still strong and only slightly rubbed.

About The Call of the Wild

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.

Identifying the First Edition of The Call of the Wild

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