Best Tales of the Yukon
by Robert W. Service
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0894712012
- ISBN 13
- 9780894712012
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1983 Running Press, Philadelphia, PA. 1983. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 18th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for gift inscription on the half title page. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bump to front wrap bottom edge. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 159 pp 4vo. This is a printing of 47 poems published in The Spell of the Yukon and Ballads of a Cheechako while Service was working as a bank teller in Whitehorse, Yukon. In the United States, the book was published under the title The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses and in Canada Songs of a Sourdough. The book is well known for its verse about the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon a decade earlier, particularly the long, humorous ballads, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee." His poems depicting not just the hard lives and isolation of Yukon prospectors but also the drinking, gambling, and prostitution that was prevalent in Dawson City. A clean near pristine copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011849
- Title
- Best Tales of the Yukon
- Author
- Robert W. Service
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0894712012
- ISBN 13
- 9780894712012
- Publisher
- Running Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Yukon, Alaska, Gold Rush, Klondike, poems, poetry, Robert W. Service, Yukon Territory, Klondike gold rush, Dawson City Alaska, poetry, poems, ribald poems,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Americana;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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