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The Call of the Wild
by London, Jack
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WILLIAMSBURG, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bransom, Paul (Illustrated by).
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941 (1912).
Original cloth, lettered in gilt.
Illustrated with Color Plates by Paul Bransom.
Very Good. Rear hinge cracked else tight binding; clean pages and covers; name on front endpaper; moderate wear; lacking the scarce dust jacket.
A beautifully illustrated illustrated edition of the great classic.
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- LaCelle Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18394
- Title
- The Call of the Wild
- Author
- London, Jack
- Illustrator
- Bransom, Paul (Illustrated by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: The Macmillan Company
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- CLASSICS,WHITE FANG
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Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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