8vo. 8 color plates after Charles Livingston Bull. Original grey-blue pictorial cloth stamped in white and black, spine gilt-lettered (light rubbing to extremities, front free endpaper and half-title partially detached). Provenance: Jack London (bookplate tipped to front free endpaper); Eliza Shepard, London's step sister-in-law and neighbor (inscription to "Jessie(?)" on front pastedown); LOA from Christophe Stickel Autographs laid in.

FIRST EDITION, with the title-page a cancel on laid paper. Woodbridge and BAL identify copies with the cancel title-page as the second issue, though Merle Johnson states he knows of no copies with an integral title-page. Intended as a companion piece to The Call of the Wild, White Fang is the story of a savage part-wolf dog who is domesticated through the kindness of his owner.

ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LONDON'S STEP-SISTER AT JACK LONDON RANCH: "Dearest Jessie(?), I could not think of a more appropriate gift for your birthday than a 1st edition of 'White Fang' written by the boy you & I watched grow into manhood & prominence and whom we both loved. All love & best wishes for many happy returns of the day- Mother. Jack London Ranch, June 15 1935." Eliza Shepard moved to Beauty Ranch, Glen Ellen, in 1910, where Jack hired her as both ranch supervisor and overseer of the Wolf House Project. Following Jack's death, Eliza partnered with his widow, Charmian, and continued to handle most business matters, including the continuation of the ranch and movie rights.

BAL 11896 [calling for cancel title-page on either laid or wove paper, no priority]; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.122-123; Woodbridge 46.