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SERVICE, Robert W. (1874-1958). Trio of First Editions of Service's Poetry, including: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. New York: Barse & Hopkins, [1907]. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. 126 pp. Publisher's full green cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt (spine a bit toned, rubbed, light rubbing, soiling to boards, faint dampstaining to upper edge of text). Very good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. And: Ballads of a Cheechako. Toronto: William Briggs, 1909. 8vo. Illustrated with 10 plates, including frontispiece. 146 pp. Publisher's full green cloth, pictorial label on front board, front board and spine stamped in gilt (spine worn, creased, some edgewear to boards, corners bumped, ffep. missing, front hinge starting, bookplate on fp.) Fair. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. And: Complete Poetical Works… New York: Barse & Co., [1921]. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. 228 pp. Publisher's full green cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt, publisher's green cloth jacket, spine stamped in gilt (light rubbing to binding, some offsetting to endleaves; jacket soiled, edgeworn, with some bumping short tears). Very good. FIRST EDITION THUS. Known as “The Poet of the Yukon," Service was perhaps the most commercially successful poet of the 20th century.