Deephaven

Limited edition of 250 copies, this being #41. Hardcover in Very Good condition, 8vo, pages: vii,[i],305. Khaki paper-covered boards, white cloth shelf-back with paper title-label, cloth tips, edges untrimmed, title page in red and black, 52 illustrations (as called for) including head- and tail-pieces, all finely produced and pasted-on (chine-colle). Tips and spine ends lightly worn, tape residue on spine ends and end-papers. Bookseller accession no.: 20001. From a NY Times review 28 April 1877, "Deephaven is a prolonged study of some New-England seaside port, like New-Bedford or Portsmouth, which has had former glories of West Indian or whaling trade, and now abounds in women, old sailors, and boys. .it is by some mistake, doubtless, that it got into print at all." Richard Cary, in 1972, suggests that this review was written, ".from a height of urban contumely (and) brings her down with the roughest rebuke she is ever to receive." Needless to say, Jewett's popularity has greatly increased since the late 19th Century.…