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LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. New York: Macmilllan, 1903. 8o. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Original green pictorial cloth, t.e.g. (some light rubbing along ends of spine and corners, small nick along front binding fore-edge, otherwise a clean copy); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, first issue with the vertically ribbed cloth binding. There have been several screen adaptations of London's epic adventure, including a 1972 film starring Charlton Heston as John Thornton. BAL 11876; Johnson, p. 318.