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Jack London's Son of the Wolf, 1st in jacket

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Title: The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North
Author: London, Jack
Description: [8], 251, [1] pp. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon with tissue-guard. Dark greenish-black cloth stamped in silver. Jacket. First Edition, First Printing.Rare jacketed copy of London's first book. Dustjacket art duplicates in printed black on beige paper the book's distinctive "belt-buckle" cover design. Unrestored. First printing of London's first book. Identifiable by collation (per BAL) or by two more obvious issue points which have recently been identified: first issue has tipped-in frontispiece, later issues with frontispiece sewn in; first issue has comma after the year (1900) on copyright page, later issues have punctuation corrected with a period. First printing was only 2028 copies. BAL 11869; Sisson & Martens, p. 1.
Heading: Place Published: Boston & New York
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Co.
Date Published: 1900