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The Call of the Wild
by London, Jack
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Fine. 2014. Hardcover. Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition. This book is number 411 of 800 printed. This is a special recreation of the 1903 first edition including all the original illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Goodwin and Bull were well known nature artists in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Their illustrations for The Call of the Wild were actually commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post for their magazine serialization of the novel during the summer of 1903, the book first edition published by Macmillian was released just as the serialization was ending, and Macmillian wisely chose to include the wonderful illustrations. Interestingly, both London and the Saturday Evening Post disliked the title. London suggested changing it to The Sleeping Wolf while the SEP considered The Wolf. Bound in full genuine leather with real 22kt gold titles. The cover illustrations faithfully recreate those of the original. Luxury features include pictorial endpapers, raised bands on the spine, gilded page edges, a satin sewn-in bookmark, and archival quality paper pages that are sewn (not glued) into the binding. All features of this book are upgraded and superior to the standard Easton quality. The leather is specially imported from Italy by Cortina of New York. The paper was specially made by Glatfelter of Pennsylvania. Lithography by the Falcon Press of Nashville. Comes in a custom clamshell illustrated box made by BindTech of Nashville. Beautiful and As New. I bought this book from a long time Easton Press subscriber who purchased it from Easton Press in 2014 and never read it. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box with tracking. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages .
Synopsis
Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is an anthropomorphic canine’s unforgettable tale of survival. Set during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, the novel’s main character, Buck, a large and powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd, is stolen from his ranch home in Santa Clara Valley, California, and sold into service as a sled dog. At first, Buck experiences violence and struggles for survival, becoming progressively feral in the harsh environment. By the end, Buck relies on his instinct and learned experience to emerge as the proven leader of the pack. In The Call of the Wild, author Jack London blends his experience as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness with his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, influenced by the work of Darwin and Nietzsche. Thus, although the novel is first and foremost a story about a dog, it displays a philosophical depth absent in most animal adventures. In the summer of 1903, the story was first serialized in four installments in The Saturday Evening Post, which paid $750 for it. Soon after, London sold all rights to The Call of the Wild to Macmillan, which published the story in book format in August of that same year. As the first printing of 10,000 copies sold out immediately, it is safe to say the novel was enormously popular from the moment it was published. It has since secured its place in the canon of American literature. Today, The Call of the Wild is still one of the best-known stories written by an American author and has been published in almost 50 languages. The Call of the Wild is ranked 35th on The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels and 88th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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- Good Books In The Woods
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77373
- Title
- The Call of the Wild
- Author
- London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 2014
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