Robert W. Service — Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

Toronto, William Briggs, 1912 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of verse from Robert W. Service. An exceptionally lovely copy of this work. The first edition of this volume of poems from 'the Bard of the Yukon', British-born Canadian poet Robert William Service. Published prior to the illustrated Canadian edition of the same year.An accomplished and prolific writer, because of their popularity, and the speed with which he wrote them, his works were dismissed by critics, who tended to say the same of Rudyard Kipling, with whom Service was often compared.The first edition of a poet frequently considered to be one of the most commercially successful poet of the twentieth century, nicknamed the 'Canadian Kipling&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright, with the odd pencil notation to margins. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .