White Fang by Jack London, First Edition (22 results)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, cream lettering & illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 327pp, illus/plates- some detached but all present, G+ (light to moderate bruisng & chafing/scuffing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, prev owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, v heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, varying degrees of tanning & staining to pages but mostly quite light, numerous pages detached & moderately creased & chipped/torn at edges but present, lower portion of page 315-316 torn out- some text missing).

327pp. 8vo. Original cloth, worn. Colour plates. Lacking ffe, hinges split with binding loose, some damp staining internally, a fair copy. First UK edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Second state, with title page tipped in. Fair to good condition. Spine a bit slanted, Hinges are cracked and gutters discolored. Brief 1906 gift inscription on the half title page. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and seven other color illustrations present and in fine condition.

Decorative cloth. Condition: Nearly Very Good. Charles Livingston Bull (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, second issue as usual. Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. Leaning slightly, slight wear to extremities, front inner hinge poorly repaired, slightly rubbed with some loss to decoration on front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in embossed cloth boards. Spine and boards tight with little wear. Spine bright front board has some light spotting with a little wear to picture as usual. Front endpaper not split with one 1907 inscription. Inner end paper has some splitting. Seems to be whats called the second issue with the tipped in title page. Pages are tight with no foxing or watermarks. 327 pages + some ads.

No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for the great author Jack London's WHITE FANG. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper of the wolf] on the side. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition in about very good condition with the front and rear hinge starting to crack. Owners plate to cover verso and a different owners name inked to front endpaper. Wear to corners and edges and a small stain to the front. Central image on cover rubbed as usual. Offsetting to the first ten pages or so ( first signature). A decent copy overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good or Better. First Edition. First Printing. Second State with tipped on title page. A Very Good or Better copy in pale greyish-green cloth stamped in gilt at spine, in dull white and black with vignette on front cover, decorative endpapers. Lacking the very scarce dustwrapper. 327pp. with two leaves of publisher's ads at end. Slightly cocked. Rear gutter split repaired and firm. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. A nice snug, tight copy with no fraying. Q14666.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Macmillan Company, 1906. First Published Edition, "Published, October 1906" on copyright page. 8vo. vii,[3],327,[1]pp plus [4]pp ads. Full grey-green cloth, spine letters gilt, letters on front cover white, image on front cover in white and black. Very good condition, edges of boards slightly rubbed, title leaf slightly toned by tissue guard, short tear to lower margin of title leaf, very faint water stain to fore-edge margin of several pages at end, owner's name on front endpaper. 8 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. Both the title and subsequent leaf are on laid paper and integral. BAL 11896: "Copies occur with a cancel title-leaf printed on either wove or laid paper. Copies also occur with the title-leaf printed (on laid paper) as an integral part of the gathering. The significance has not been determined". Merle Johnson (American First Editions) had never seen a copy with integral title leaf.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages.

Cloth over Board. Condition: Good For Age. No Jacket. First Edition, Second Printing. This copy has some rubbing, edgewear and corner bumping, one tiny dent in the upper right side of the front cover, there are a few small bleach spots on the spine, front cover has moderate foxing. Text edges have moderate foxing, interior has yellowed severely and all endpapers have foxing, text block has separated from spine and there are two breaks, one between pages 6-7 and one directly in the center. The title page has been tipped in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leinen-O. Condition: Gut. -. VII, (1), 327, (2) S., Erste Ausgabe / First edition. - Aus der Bibliothek von Frederick Vezin (1859-1933, amerikanisch-deutscher Maler, Radierer und Lithograph), eigenhändig signiert und datiert 1908 auf Vorsatz und mit Ortsangabe Düsseldorf auf Titelblatt. - "Der Roman variiert das Thema von Londons Buch Ruf der Wildnis, in dem ein domestizierter Hund sich in ein wildes Tier zurückverwandelt. Diese Erzählung wird in Wolfsblut umgekehrt: Hier wandelt sich ein Wildtier in ein zivilisiertes, an den Menschen und die Gesellschaft gewöhntes Wesen." (Wikipedia). - Charles Livingston Bull (1874-1932) war ein amerikanischer Illustrator und bekannt für seine Bilder aus der Tierwelt. Er illustrierte über 125 Bücher, darunter Werke von Frank Baum und Rudyard Kipling, seine Bilder erschienen in Zeitschriften wie Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Boy?s Life, Collier`s, American Boy, und Country Gentleman. - 8°, mit 8 Farbtafeln nach Illustrationen von Charles Livingstone Bull, Orig.-Leinen mit goldgepr. Rückentitel und geprägtem Deckeltitel und -illustration, Kanten etwas berieben, Innengelenke etwas angeplatzt, Seiten leicht gebräunt, vord. fl. Vorsatzblatt und Vortitel lose, obere Seitenecken anfangs minimal gestaucht, winziger Tintenfleck auf 2 Blättern, sonst gutes Exemplar / original cloth with gilt lettered spine, lettered and illustrated front cover, corners slightly rubbed, inner hinges slightly cracked, upper edges in the beginning minimally bumped, half title with end paper detached, tiny ink mark on two leaves, else a fine copy 107828_Literatur Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2100.

Hardcover - as published. First Edition. Good++ front hinge shows some wear and a gap in the paste-down. Minor wear to extrems. Spine very readable. Chipping on the FFEP. Rear hinge weak. Light soiling to cover. All illustrations are present and correct.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Gray illustrated cloth with cream lettering on front, gilt spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to spine, cloth lightly soiled and pulled at the crown, rubber stamp to front free end paper, bookseller ticker to rear pastedown with hinge there slightly exposed, pages lightly toned with several corners bent. Jack London's answer to his own Call of the Wild; in this novel domestication (not wildness) is the path to freedom for the canine protagonist.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Vii, 327 Pp + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Gray-Green Vertically Ribbed Cloth, Spine Gilt, Cover Stamped In White, Cream, And Black, Illustrated Endpapers. First Printing. Title Page Tipped In As Usual; This Title Page On Laid Paper.Spie Gilt Complete And Brilliant. Covers Clean, Some Losses To Colors Of Lettering And Illustration On Front Cover. Rear Hinge Broken, 6 Small Ink Letters At Corner Of Rear Endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, second issue. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 12mo. vii 327pp. 4pp [ad]. Rear gutter cracked. First edition, second issue with the "cancel title page" pasted onto a stub. The first issue with the integral title page is thought by Merle Johnson to be virtually unobtainable; but a few have surfaced at auction. With "Set up and electrotyped. Published October 1906" on copyrght page. Bound in blue illustrated cloth. Color frontispiece and 7 additional color plates plates by Chas. Livington Bull. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Some rubbing to the edges of the cloth. BAL 11896. Woodbridge 46.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charles Livingston Bull (illustrator). 1st Edition. Condition: VG+. First edition, second issue with tipped in title page (as expected). 327 pp. followed by two leaves of ads. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's stamp to FFEP and an owner's bookplate affixed to rear of first color plate. Solid and square book. Front pastedown has some cracking at hinge.

Original cloth. Condition: Near fine. First edition, second issue of White Fang by Jack London. (illustrator). First Edition, Second Issue. Octavo, vii, [3], 327pp, [4pp ads]. Green-gray cloth, title stamped in white with small illustration stamped in black and white on front cover. Published in "October, 1906," stated on copyright page. As usual, the second issue, with title page a cancel. Title in gilt on spine. Solid text block, illustrated endpapers. Faint soiling to spine, light wear to cover illustration, a near fine example. Complete with eight color illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue guard. (Sisson & Martens 30) (BAL 11896) A bright, near fine example. Jack London (1876-1916) was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity, London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television, most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford.

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Gray illustrated cloth with cream lettering on front, gilt spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with light wear and light soiling to covers, hinge at front free endsheet partially cracked and several hinges in the text slightly over-opened, initials inked to rear paste down. Jack London's answer to his own Call of the Wild; in this novel domestication (not wildness) is the path to freedom for the canine protagonist.

First Edition. Original illustrated cloth. Adventure novel of the domestication of a wild canine. BAL 11896. Very Good attractive copy, bit of foxing to title page and frontis tissue, mild soiling and wear to cloth, an old previous owner signature at front endpaper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Bull, Charles Livingston (illustrator). First Edition, Second Issue. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1906. First edition, second issue. Signed on ffep by London's daughter, Becky. Octavo, 327 pp + ads. Blue/green cloth, pictorial cover. Only light soiling and shelf wear. Hinges just starting to crack with rear hinge showing signs of glue repair. Bright, sturdy, Very Good, with better than VG curb appeal. See scans. Second issue according to BAL and Woodbridge, with the tipped-in title page; Merle Johnson, however, states that the title page was always on a stub, or at least all the copies he examined. At any rate, copies with an integral title-page seem to be virtually unobtainable. BAL 11896; Sisson & Martens, p. London's classic adventure tale of the dog-wolf, White Fang, in a first edition example signed by London's daughter, Becky, and previously owned by C.S. Brigham, this likely being Clarence. S. Brigham, director of the American Antiquarian Society and the author of Journals and Journeymen: A Contribution to the History of Early AmericanNewspapers; Paul Revere's Engravings; and History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820. Charles Livingston Bull's outstanding color plate illustrations enhance London's wilderness tale, which may be second in fame only to The Call of the Wild among London's novels. See scans. L98. Signed by Author's Daughter.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with tipped in title page. An attractive book without the ubiquitous fading to the spine. A beautiful copy. The binding is tight, with light wear to the panels. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy with a superb facsimile dustjacket from the ORIGINAL of this TRUE FIRST EDITION. We buy London First Editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Jack London on a laid in check. A beautiful copy with some minor wear to the boards of the book. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a collectable copy of this true first edition SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED London First Editions. Signed by Author(s).