Translated from English by M. Drangel. Stockholm: Bohlin, 1910. Fine Edition with Half-leather binding (no dust jacket).Rich brown half leather with (handpainted?) snowflake (?) design on boards. Spine has three raised bands with gilt titling and designs on spine; gilt is bright, spine leather possibly slightly sunfaded to a lighter brown. All three edges handpainted marbling (see photo of fore edge). Leather corners rubbed and lightly frayed. Marbled endpapers clean, no marks. Volume inexplicably has two title pages, the first on heavier paper with a lovely portrait of "Buck" (possibly handpainted and initialed?) Second title page (in photo) has Frontis color print. Hinges and sewing square and tight, no loose pages. Text pages have small art nouveau decoration at chapter heads and ends; paper is clean and crisp, no marks, no damaged pages. Bound-in red ribbon page marker. This is an outstanding and rare edition of this work.
5.5" x 8" 195 p.
London's (1876-1916) early short adventure novel, set in the Yukon, was first published in 1903, set in the Yukon and featuring a dog named "Buck." The popular and best-selling book has been filmed several times--1923, 1935 (Clark Gable) and 1972 (Charlton Heston).