Printed on a coarse grayish-green paper and duplicating the illustration that is executed in black and cream on the dark bluish-green cloth covers, the dust jacket produced by Macmillan in New York for the 1906, first edition of Jack London’s novel, White Fang, is today a very rare sight indeed. There was a crease across the example seen in a PBA Galleries of San Francisco sale of September 18, 2008, and in parts that crease had developed into small splits. But with so few copies in jackets known, many buyers were moved to ignore this blemish. It sold for $27,000, setting an auction record for any of Jack London’s books—narrowly pipping the $26,250 record set by the a copy of The Call of the Wild at Sotheby’s New York in June of last year.
