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Jack London Call of the Wild signed & inscribed.

Title: The Call of the Wild
Author: London, Jack.
Description: [5]-231, [1] + [2] ad pp. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull with 11 color plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard, 5 color illustrations in the text, pictorial endpapers, page decorations by Charles E. Hooper. Decorative vertically ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, white, and red, top edge gilt. First Edition, First Printing.Inscribed and signed on verso of front free endpaper to longtime friend and fellow Oakland resident Frederick Irons Bamford: "To Our F. I. Bamford / With affection and love, Jack London. The Bungalow, July 23, 1903." A very early presentation copy of London's most successful book. It is notable that the date of the inscription is one day after London had returned to "The Bungalow" - the home he shared with his first wife, Bessie Maddern London, having left her for Charmian Kittredge on July 14. The attempt at reconciliation failed and on July 29, he left for good. BAL 11876; Sisson & Martens, p. 13.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
Date Published: 1903