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  "The Wild Still Lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept": First Edition of Jack London's White Fang; Inscribed by London's Step-Sister Eliza Shepard

  LONDON, Jack.

  White Fang.

  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906.

  First edition of London's beloved novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. With usual cancel title page. BAL notes that the cancel page occurs printed on either wove or on laid paper (the rest of the text sheets are all laid paper) but no priority or other significance. BAL 11896. Association copy, inscribed by London's step-sister at Jack London Ranch, "Dearest Jessie, I could not think of a more appropriate gift for your birthday than a 1st edition of 'White Fang' written by the boy you & I watched grow into manhood & prominence and whom we both loved. All love & best wishes for many happy returns of the day- Mother. Jack London Ranch, June 15 1935." In 1905, London purchased a 1,000-acre ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain. Desirous that the ranch become a successful business enterprise, he continued to write purely as a commercial enterprise. The ranch was ultimately an economic failure, but it was during this period that London published some of his best-known works including White Fang (1906), The Iron Heel (1908), and Adventure (1911). Eliza Shepard moved to Beauty Ranch, Glen Ellen, in...

  Price: $3,250.00     Item Number: 149996

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