Best Tales of the Yukon
de Robert W. Service
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0762414596
- ISBN 13
- 9780762414598
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 9.34EUR 6.54
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Sobre este artículo
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2003 Running Press, Philadelphia, PA. 2003. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Reprint of the 1907 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. 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 8vo. This is a reprint of a book of 33 poems published in 1907 by Robert W. Service while he 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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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 011734
- Título
- Best Tales of the Yukon
- Autor
- Robert W. Service
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0762414596
- ISBN 13
- 9780762414598
- Editorial
- Running Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Philadelphia, PA
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- Yukon, Alaska, Gold Rush, Klondike, poems, poetry, Robert W. Service, Yukon Territory, Klondike gold rush, Dawson City Alaska, poetry, poems, ribald poems,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography; Americana;
Términos de venta
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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- 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.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....