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The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
by Robert Service
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955 Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 1955. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1916 edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name note of a 1955 stay in Fairbanks, AK and book seller stamp on RFFP for Fairbanks. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light bumping to tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($2.00); chipping and missing small pieces at head and tail; light suntoning to spine; light wear to tips. Tan cloth boards and spine with dark brown lettering on the spine and front board. 126 pp 12mo. This book is well known for its verses 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 very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013661
- Title
- The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
- Author
- Robert Service
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Yukon, Alaska, Gold Rush, Klondike, poems, poetry, Robert W. Service, Yukon Territory, Klondike gold rush, Dawson City Alaska,Yukon, Alaska, Gold Rush, Klondike, poems, poetry, Robert W. Service, Yukon Territory, Klondike gold rush, Dawson City Alaska, po
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
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