Robert Greenwood called White Fang "one of London’s most interesting and ambitious works." It has been adapted for the screen numerous times, including a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke. Upon its release, it was an immediate success worldwide, and became especially popular among younger readers. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.
White Fang takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. The ranch was ultimately an economic failure, but it was during this period that London published some of his best-known works including White Fang (1906), The Iron Heel (1908), and Adventure (1911). Desirous that the ranch become a successful business enterprise, he continued to write purely as a commercial enterprise. Selmhardt $2.00 Jack London.” In 1905, London purchased a 1,000-acre ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain.
Dated June 29 1905, the check is paid to the order of “E. Accompanied by a rare Oakland Central Bank check signed by London. BAL notes that the cancel page occurs printed on either wove or on laid paper (the rest of the text sheets are all laid paper) but no priority or other significance. Frontispiece and 6 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering. Robert Greenwood called White Fang "one of London’s most interesting and ambitious works." It has been adapted for the screen numerous times, including a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke.First edition of London’s beloved novel. This copy with cancel printed on wove paper. BAL notes that the cancel page occurs printed on either wove or on laid paper (the rest of the text sheets are all laid paper) but no priority or other significance. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 6 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull.
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