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1911 · réf. 64719 — New York NY: Dodd Mead & Co. 1911. 8vo. xi 1 514 pp. Frontisp. 3 plates. Olive-gray decorated publisher’s cloth olive-green locked hearts white lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. embossed illustrated cover art featuring raised embossed gold nugget floating above silhouette grasping hands light shelfwear very minor creasing still a NF/NF copy. First edition of the noted British-Canadian poet’s daring tragedy set against the backdrop of the Klondike Gold Rush the madness of the stampede of gold-seekers to Alaska and the hero’s deprivations struggles and conflicts in the gold fields and finally finding love with an abandoned young Jewish-American woman only to lose her at the end. At the time this was one of the best-selling novels of the Alaska Gold Rush and was later the first “Talkie” movie on the Klondike featuring Harry Carey and Dolores Del Rio released by M-G-M in their short-lived widescreen process with a synchronized musical score and sound effects. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover