first edition Hardcover
1907 · New York
by London, Jack
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. (States "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1907." on copyright page. Rare variant binding noted by BAL and Sisson & Martens with no gilt on cover or edges, only two pages of ads at rear.) xii, 224, (ii) pp. Illustrated. Very Good, no jacket. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. Black stamping rubbed, cloth a little grubby, bottom edge a bit worn. The Call of the Wild author's account of hopping freight trains across the USA in 1890, one of the best hobo books of all time.
(Inventory #: 180314001)