"Robert W. Service Leatherbound 9 Vol Set by Sangorski & Sutcliffe 1907-1928" (SOLD)
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7.5"x 5"
9 volume set, alas, lacking the 7th "V" volume in the set of 10.
Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England
The Spell Of The Yukon And Other Verses
Barse & Hopkins
1907
[126] pp.
Ballads Of A Cheechako
Barse & Hopkins
1909
[135] pp.
The Trail Of '98: A Northland Romance
1910
[514] pp.
Rhymes Of A Rolling Stone
Barse & Hopkins
1912
[172] pp.
The Pretender: A Story Of The Latin Quarter
Dodd, Mead and Company
1914
[349] pp.
Rhymes Of A Red Cross Man
Barse & Hopkins
1916
[192] pp.
The Roughneck
Grosset & Dunlap
1923
[448] pp.
The Master Of The Microbe: A Fantastic Romance
Barse & Hopkins
1926
[424] pp.
The House Of Fear
Dodd, Mead and Company
Fourth Printing March, 1928
[408] pp.
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Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty. When his bank sent him to the Yukon, he was inspired by tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, and wrote two poems, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", which showed remarkable authenticity from an author with no experience of the gold rush or mining, and enjoyed immediate popularity. Encouraged by this, he quickly wrote more poems on the same theme, which were published as Songs of a Sourdough (re-titled The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses in the U.S.), and achieved a massive sale. When his next collection, Ballads of a Cheechako, proved equally successful, Service could afford to travel widely and live a leisurely life, basing himself in Paris and the French Riviera.