Very Sharp Copy
The Call of the Wild.
New York: Macmillan, 1903.
Price: $27,500.00
About the item
First edition, first issue (July 1903). Color frontispiece with bound tissue guard; two-color illustrated title page; illustrated endpapers. 231, [3]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth, decoratively stamped in black, red, and gilt. Fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. BAL 11876; Sisson & Martens p. 13.
Item #375544
Along with White Fang, one of the two great novels for which the author seems destined to be remembered. His empathy for animals, combined with his appreciation of the Darwinian lessons of life, here overcome London's occasionally simplistic political agenda, resulting in a classic tale for both children and adults.
