Ballads of a Cheechako

NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1909. Hardcover. Good/None. Average little book, penned over owner name first endsheet. Customary age wear, unmarked binding sound. Excuse the lecture that follows, but, there is some clarification required. Service was a Non-US writer, writing poetry on Canadian subjects, whose publisher, in Canada was Briggs of Toronto in this era, they did a 1909 HC first with dust jacket that is highly prized. Apparently in 1909 B&H and Stern both did US versions of the work, the B&H was done with a dust jacket (usually necessary to have if so made for a high value sale) the Stern perhaps not. Mandeville's 89 guide says 1909, B&H, 137 page, top edge gilt, edition not specified. Our book lacks the T.E.G. and gives Stern as holder of the 1909 copyright. Additionally there is one knowledgeably offered 1907 B&H book on-line. Who knows? Not me. The answer would be to get a good bibliography of R.S. and glean from it's information. I can not do this for this sort of lesser copy. Again, let me stress, there are 2 US houses being identified as offering first editions (US) of the book, this seems most unlikely to me, at least as the trade's customary use of the term applies. See Ahearn. Or perhaps I am full of it. Always a possibility. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are so described, and graded, using the strict, traditional standards. For this reason, we have virtually zero returns.*