8vo. 2 pp. publisher ads at end; 11 color printed plates including frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 full-page woodcuts by Philip P. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, with numerous decorations by Charles Edward Hooper. Original decorated green cloth stamped in red, white, and black with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers (light rubbing to stamping and joints, some discoloration near foot of spine, slight lean); DUST JACKET (spine ends, flap folds, and portion of front panel restored, spine panel reinforced on verso, vertical split to front panel near joint, chip near foot of front panel). Provenance: Rebecca London Fleming (1902-1992), daughter of Jack London (gift inscription); to Robert Martens, bibliographer; Alton Ripley (ownership signature below the above).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with vertically ribbed cloth. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY JACK LONDON'S DAUGHTER TO A JACK LONDON BIBLIOGRAPHER on half-title: "For Bob Martens with best wishes from Becky London, October 20, 1978." Robert Martens co-wrote with James Sisson, Jack London First Editions Illustrated: A Chronological Reference Guide (Star Rover House, 1979).

London's Call of the Wild is one of the most desirable classics in American literature and “one of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from the sheltered environment of civilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the early part of the century this was considered the American dream.” (Parker, 16). BAL 11876; Sisson & Martens, p.13. IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET.