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Jack London's Call of the Wild in jacket

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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 pebbled green cloth, lettered in gilt, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, white, and red, top edge gilt. Pictorial jacket. First Edition, later printing.Jack London's most famous book, in the original first edition dust jacket. The book itself is a later printing, the same year, imprint, and collation as the first printing, but in BAL's pebbled "A" cloth, rather than the vertically ribbed "T" cloth of the first printing. In addition, it is evident that later printing statement(s) on the copyright page have been very neatly erased/scraped off, so that only the "published July, 1903" statement remains.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
Date Published: 1903