White Fang London, Jack 20th Century,American Literature,Fiction,Modern Firsts

Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, with a frontispiece, seven plates, and five divisional plates (printed in brown-orange). First edition, second issue (as usual) with tipped-in cancel title page on wove paper. Publisher's vertically ribbed gray-green decorative cloth, with gilt lettering to spine, wolf illustration and lettering stamped in black and white to the front board, and endpapers printed with mountain scenes; lacking the very scarce original dust jacket. Near fine, with light toning to spine, a touch of rubbing to spine ends, light soiling to front board, cloth very clean otherwise, Clyde Lucas Sherman bookplate to front pastedown, a small nick to fore edge of text block, and a tiny nick to fore edges of pp. vii - [xii]. Overall, a wonderful copy of Jack London's follow-up to The Call of the Wild. BAL 11896. Originally published serially in Outing magazine from May to October 1906, White Fang is a companion novel to its predecessor, The Call of the Wild. The novel is written from the point of view of the titular main character, a wolfdog named White Fang, as he transitions into domestication. The book is the thematic opposite of its companion text, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a domesticated dog's return to nature. White Fang is set in the Yukon Territory in Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.