Publicado por Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1910
Librería: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Cloth. Condición: Fair to Good. Maynard Dixon (Four Color Plates) Ilustrador. Reprint. READING COPY; Front endpapers separated at the gutter, hinge solidly intact; Aged textblock, else clean and tight; Aged and character-worn spine and boards, Three-inch closed tear along front gutter, bumped and worn head and foot of spine; Worn and lightly frayed corners; 514p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
Publicado por Dodo Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 1409916499 ISBN 13: 9781409916499
Librería: arcfoundationthriftstore, Ventura, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good. Dixon, Maynard Ilustrador. minimal wear on edges and corners curling pages on cornerYour purchase benefits those with developmental disabilities to live a better quality of life.
Publicado por Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1928
Librería: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Reprint. Nice bright copy w only minor wear, pages white, binding tight. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4, 514 pp. VeryGood w owner data inside else unmarked, light wear to spine edges. Hardcover in blue cloth boards w black titling, no jacket.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Co, NY, 1911
Librería: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 514 pp.+ 4 Illus Plts by Maynard Dixon, Orig Blue Hardback with white title, spine wrinlkled, section of pp protrudes bit farther out than other pages else Good, no DJ, 1st Amer ed (Mitham, p. 75).
Publicado por Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1910
Librería: First Class Used Books, Rockaway Beach, MO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. No Jacket. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. 514 pages. Previous owner name inside front cover at the top and on reverse of frontis. Light wear to the corners. Light shelf wear to the edges. Spine is slightly darkend. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Two small chips front edge of back cover and small chip bottom of back cover. Soiling to the back cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, 1911
Librería: Bibliodditiques, IOBA, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Green coverboards. Book has a lean to it. Black and white frontis illustration and three other full page illustrations. Paper covering front and rear hinges is split, however, binding, remains secure and tight. A bit of surface wear to front free endapaper, likely from an eraser or removal of sticker. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 514 pp.
Publicado por Grossett & Dunlap, New York, NY, USA, 1910
Librería: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Dixon, Maynard Ilustrador. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. No dust jacket. Pictures available upon request.
Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, 1913
Librería: Buybyebooks, Honiton, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. First. HB 1st Ed. Green cloth boards. Grey overlapping hearts front. Yellow titles front and spine. 19.3 x 13.1cm. 514 pages. b/w frontis. b/w illustd plates. Condition: Wear on cover spine top and bottom + corners. e/ps cracked down seam but binding holding, albeit wobbly. Main bulk of text bound firm. o/p owner name dated 1920. Pages tanning on edges. Clean.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911
Librería: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Illustrations by Dixon, Maynard Ilustrador. binding tight, owners name, shelf wear. 514 pages. S4 2.
Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, 1911
Librería: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. First Canadian Edition. light blue publisher's cloth; white lettering on spine and over coupled green hearts on front cover; hinges tight; all four plates present and in excellent condition; minor shelf rubbing at extremities; slight lean to spine otherwise near fine. Mitham A3 1.
Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, Canada, 1911
Librería: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Dixon, Maynard Ilustrador. 4 b/w plates. 514 pp. Yellowed endpapers, with previous owner's name and small label on ffep. Both boards loose. Green cloth with yellow titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine worn, faint stains. GOOD+ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Publicado por William Briggs, Toronto, 1910
Librería: Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. 1st Edition. [528pp, 4 plate leaves]: xii, 516 (last leaf blank); brown linen stamped brown & black; 193 x 130 x 35 mm. Canadian issue of the author's first novel (& third book), from US Dodd Mead sheets (tp integral), in proprietary Briggs binding. This issue differs from that described by the bibliographer as the first issue [Mitham A3a.1]. The title-page (which bears no date recto), includes the US title of the author's first book ("The Spell of the Yukon" instead of "Songs of a Sourdough"), with imprint: "TORONTO, CANADA / WILLIAM BRIGGS / PUBLISHER". This leaf is conjugate with pp [1/2]. Title-page (verso) reads: " Copyright, 1910, by / DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY / [rule] / Entered at Stationers' Hall" without appended printer's slug -- page [iv]. Collation proceeds: [i] half-title; [ii] blank; [iii] tp; [iv] copyright; [v]"CONTENTS"; [vi] blank; [vii] "ILLUSTRATIONS"; [viii] ten lines from Songs of a Sourdough; [ix-xi] foliated "v"-"vii": "PRELUDE"; [xii] blank; [1] "BOOK I"; etc. In other words, the present issue bears the sole date of 1910 (which accords with the Canadian publication date cited by Mitham, 10 December 1910), with an unrecorded Briggs title-page incorporating an American title. This is hardly an alteration which might be introduced in a later issue, the American title of the author's first book on the title-page far likelier representing an oversight in the first issue, which was altered to include the Canadian title for subsequent printings. However, Mitham records two early Ryerson printings including the US title of the first book [A3a.4 & A3a.5]. It's tempting to equate the present issue with Mitham's third Canadian issue [A3a.3] whose title-page bears a similar undated imprint with collation of prelims as here, however that bears the Canadian title of the first book. Another difference appears in the frontis plate -- & attendant listing among the Illustrations [vii] -- where "cauldron" is spelled "caldron" as in the US issue (though the bibliographer's transcription, "cauldron", may simply be an oversight). Likewise his use of single quote marks in describing the plate captions (p72 in the bib) differs from the double quote marks employed here. Note that the displaced foliation in the present prelims results merely from folding the two central sheets of the initial gathering outward instead of inward: transposing pages "v-[viii]" with [ix-xii] in the collation (which has the preferred effect of placing all text including the "Prelude" after the "Contents" & "Illustrations"). Instances of battered type lend to the likelihood, however, that this may be a reprint rather than the first impression. Nevertheless, an unrecorded issue of a bibliographically complex edition. Cloth worn & frayed, leaves intermittently toned. Just a very good copy, with ffe excised.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1911
Librería: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Maynard Dixon Ilustrador. First Edition. With the same date on the title and copyright pages and the original green designer cloth with white titles and interlaced hearts. A novel of the Gold Rush in Alaska by Canada's then most famous living author. Book is pristine, apparently never read. Jacket is near fine with a very small top corner nick, protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover, Extremely rare early Service work, especially in this fine condition.
Publicado por Dodd Mead, New York, 1911
Librería: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
First U.S. Edition. 8vo. 514 pp. 4 black & white illustrated plates by Maynard Dixon. A fine copy in about near fine dustjacket (wear to extremities & along joints; minor creasing along lower front edge). Robert William Service (1874 - 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon ". Other than Jack London's novels, this is probably the best-selling novel of that madness. "Here at last is the story of the great stampede of gold-seekers to Alaska. It is a story of incredible daring, greed, cruelty, suffering, fortitude - a drama of epic magnitude enacted among the snow-filled passes and frozen plains of the far north." - dustjacket flap. This title was the basis for the 1928 American silent drama film featuring Harry Carey and Dolores del Río about the Klondike Gold Rush.