A collection of favorites by the poet laureate of the North including "The Spell of the Yukon" and "Ballads of the Cheechako." A bank teller in Whitehourse during the Klondike gold rush, Service immortalized the frontier personalities and character in his colorful read-out-loud sagas. This handsome hardcover edition features period photographs by brothers Clarke and Clarence Kinsey, who capture the people, animals and machines of the Alaskan gold rush in evocative black-and-white images.  (ALA37, $19.98)