LONDON, Jack (1876–1916). The Call of the Wild. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. 8vo. 2 pp. publisher ads at end, 11 full–page color printed plates including frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 full–page woodcuts by Philip P. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, with numerous decorations by Charles Edward Hooper. Publisher’s decorated green cloth stamped in red, white, and black with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers (extremities a bit rubbed, lower front corner bumped, spine skewed, offsetting to title–page). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with vertically ribbed cloth, of one of the most desirable classics in American literature and “one of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from the sheltered environment of civilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the early part of the century this was considered the American dream.” (Parker, 16). BAL 11876; Sisson & Martens, p. 13.