The Spell of the Yukon

Reissue.  126pp.  Cream cloth-covered boards with black lettering front and spine.  8vo.  Cloth is unevenly faded, gently rounded at corners and spine ends.  Endpapers have some soiling; text block edges a little toned.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original worn and chipped dust wrapper, rubbed all round edges with an interior tape repair to a creased and sunned spine.  

Robert Service (1874-1958) was an British-born Canadian poet and writer, sometimes known as  “The Bard of the Yukon” and “The Canadian Kipling”. His early poetry was inspired by the stories he heard of the Klondike gold rush.  His Songs of the Sourdough was both his literally peak and a commercial success, although critics have been dismissive of his work, calling it doggerel.  Service, often known as the Canadian Kipling, or the Bard of Yukon was content to call his output verse rather than poetry.