199
●
LONDON, JACK.
The Sea-Wolf.
Frontispiece and 5 plates by W. J. Aylward.
8vo, publisher’s pictorial blue cloth, light scattered soiling to covers and a small wrinkle
along spine, but still bright and clean; top edges gilt; small bookplate and bookseller’s ticket
to front pastedown and front-free endpaper, respectively.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1904
[300/400]
FIRST EDITION
,
second issue with the title-leaf a cancel. BAL 11882.
200
●
LONDON, JACK.
White Fang.
Frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles
Livingston Bull. 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth, spine gilt lettered, pictorially stamped front
cover, few stray marks and nicks, mild foxing to fore- and bottom edges; bookplate to front
pastedown; some occasional spotting to text, but overall a clean, well-preserved copy.
New York: Macmillan, 1906
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION
,
with tipped-in title page as commonly seen. Copyright reads: “Set up and
electrotyped. Published October 1906.” BAL 11896.
197
●
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.
Mantrap.
8vo, later brown calf, gilt-paneled, front cover
detached, spine ends chipped with bottom compartment crudely repaired, scattered stain-
ing, edges dampstained, all edges gilt, by Bumpus.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1926)
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION
dated in the year of publication
attesting to Lewis’s fondness for spirits and reading in full: “To Betty Ball, this story of the
North, from one who has shared with her the heroisms of the North - even the scotch. Chicago,
Sept. 9, 1926.”
198
●
LONDON, JACK.
The Call of
the Wild.
Illustrated by Philip R.
Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull.
Inserted frontispiece as called for. 8vo,
publisher’s pictorial green cloth, few stray
marks and scuffs to covers, top edges gilt,
others uncut; few early signatures splitting,
one loose, but generally sound and clean
internally; small bookplate on verso of
half-title below publisher’s device.
New York: The Macmillan Company,
1903
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
,
with the July
1903 date on the copyright leaf, and two pages
of advertisements at end. The author’s best
known work. BAL 11876.
198
