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Lot 241
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 -
700
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$3,465
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Lot Description
LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1903.
8vo. Illustrated plates after Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull; pictorial title-page printed in black and blue. (Slight toning.) Original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some wear to extremities). Provenance: Charles (gift inscription from John Barrett, 1903).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of London’s enduring adventure novel set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. In the FIRST ISSUE BINDING with vertically ribbed cloth. BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 119.
Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection