The Complete Poems of Robert Service by Robert W. Service - 1950

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1950 Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. 1950. Hardcover. Later Printing of the 1940 New and Enlarged Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; wear to head, tail, and tips; suntanning to spine; pp 721-726 are creased from folding. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 735 pp 8vo. Known as the Bard of the Yukon, Service was sent on his bank job to the Yukon during the gold rush and produced a quantity of poetry about that region and its people. He continued to write poetry and even dabbled in novels and was once part of the Hollywood crowd in WWII. His works were publicly popular but never earned respect from the poetic intelligentsia. A clean presentable copy.