LONDON, Jack

The son of the wolf

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900. 8vo. [vi], 252, [1] pp., with printer’s mark on verso of final printed leaf. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Frontispiece inserted, tissue guard present. Publisher’s greenish-black cloth with silver belt design, with the dots surrounding the “&” at the bottom of the spine. An excellent copy. Item #16171

First edition, second printing according to BAL. This is London’s first book, a group of nine stories set in the Yukon. This work brought him “national fame for his Kiplingesque portrayal of the brutal, vigorous life of the Far North” (Hart, 490).

Price: $1,200.00