**You are bidding on a vintage paperback called The Call of The Wild by Jack London.  With an introduction by Robert A. W. Lowndes.  Complete and Unabridged.  Airmont Classic #CL30.  Copyright 1964 - please see illustration.  Book measures 4 by 7 inches, 7 Chapters, 125 Pages.  Front and back covers show a fair amount of shelf wear, fair amount of creasing, small tear on the back cover.  Spine is straight, pages are firmly attached, some paper loss, some creasing, tape with numbers appear at the top, a small tear at the toe.  Pages are yellowed, some creasing, some light marks, no tears.  Inside front and back covers show browning, creasing, back cover has a library envelope attached, front cover has some scribbles in pencil and ink, small tear at the bottom right.

"Buck, the dog in The Call of The Wild, is not entirely fictional.  When he was in Dawson, John London became acquainted with Louis W. Bond.  Lois Bond's dog, Buck, was raised on the Bond ranch in California.  London came to know Buck very well, up in the Yukon, and made him immortal in this, the best-known of his stories, a novel that was used in English classes at the University of California a year after publication.  The Buck in this novel must learn to kill and show no mercy.  He must develop the spirit and will which may lead him to die in harness, straining at a load that no dog could pull.  Buck learns his lesson well.  Then something happens that no man ever expected.  The savage frontier rouses primeval instincts in this dog, who has been man's companion and helpmate all his life, as have his forebears for generations beyond imagining.  He seeks freedom, in order to answer the mystic call of the wild.  Here is one of the greatest and most enduring adventure stories ever written."  {4418.214266}

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