Description
The spell of the Yukon and other verses. New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1907. First American edition, 12mo, presentation inscription "To the brother of A.K. [Archie Kerr Bruce] with every kind of thanks for the charming picture you have given us of our house, R.W. Service, Brittany, April. 10 [?], with 2 small sepia photographs of (?) Peter Ross Bruce and R.W. Service tipped onto front endpaper, soft calf, endpapers loose, binding faded
Footnote
In the early 1900s Archie Kerr Bruce was a journalist working in Paris and a friend of Willie Russell Flint, Robert Service and John Marin, the American painter/impressionist. Peter Ross Bruce, Archie's brother, was a ship designer and worked for Scotts on the Clyde. He was also an artist in his own right and exhibited occasionally at the RSA around about 1910. He is recorded as being one of the Kircudbright artists which include E A Taylor and his wife Jessie M King. The latter appears to have been a sort of Honorary godmother to the father of the vendor. The father of the vendor was at school at Kircubright Academy until his grandfather, who was the Procurator Fiscal, was posted to Perth where he remained until his death in 1941.