White Fang, Jack London
First edition of London's classic tale of a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is a companion novel and a thematic mirror to London's The Call of the Wild, where in this case domestication, rather than wildness, is the path to freedom. Second issue, as usual, with the title page tipped in (BAL 11896), although copies with an integral title page are virtually unobtainable.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Publisher's original gray-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt with a black and cream illustration stamped to the front cover; illustrated endpapers, complete with eight color illustrations and frontispiece, pp. vii, [3], 327, [1] + [4 ads]. A good or better copy. Boards show minor shelfwear with a couple light bumps, hinges starting and exposed but binding still secure, contemporary owner's signature to front endpaper, small smudge to verso of frontispiece, else internally quite clean. A presentable copy, protected in a removable archival sleeve.