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Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1947
Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a fourth printing in February,1947 of the First Edition of 1934. The book is bound in clean tan cloth with title and author stamped on front cover and spine. The corners roll in slightly and there is very light softening of the spine caps. Pages are clean, smooth and unmarked. Binding is firm. The scarce dust jacket is in good condition, price-clipped - a previous owner removed a one inch by 3.5 " rectangular piece of of the front panel on bottom edge. An autobiographical account of a magical childhood spent on a salt-water farm in Harpswell, Maine. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Strange Holiness. Please see all images.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down. Some shelf wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Macmillan, New York, 1934. 1934. Decorative Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp, 284. Front board with gilt title and author has monor scuff; minor wear shows at corners, spine (black title) sunned. Binding is square and tight, text block clean. Paste-downs illustrated with representative map of the region showing the Gurnet bridge in foreground; illustrated by Peter. Bears the signature Peter Pinxit, pinxit meaning painted by or drawn by Peter. Peter is the protagonist of this semi-autobiographical story, so it may be assumed to be Coffin.
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (March 18, 1892 January 20, 1955) was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936, for Strange Holiness (1935). His poem Crystal Moment is still well regarded; it features eye-to-eye contact with a buck as it is pursued by a hunting pack. Generally Coffin was a regional writer whose works appeared Yankee, Ladies Home Journal, Amercan Cookery, Good Housekeeping, and their ilk. He was a Rhodes Scholar and on the faculty of Bowdoin College.

Published by Macmillan New York, 1938
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Later Printing Hardcover SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpaper by the author/poet, his autobiography; near fine in good price-clipped dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; lite rubbing to bottom edge of boards, small chips/tears to jacket edges else a tight square unmarked copy in clipped dust jacket; fourth printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's autobiography; scarce in original dust jacket, extremely rare signed.