AMERICAN MEMORY Inscribed and Signed by Beston plus 2 ALS - one from Henry Beston taking about his recent visit and commenting on the ravage of war torn Europe and one from Elizabeth Coatsworth about her family and Henry's book Fairy Tales

Beston, Henry

Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1937

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First Edition. Beston, Henry. AMERICAN MEMORY. Signed. New York: Rinehart, (1937). First Edition Inscribed by Henry Beston to his long-time friends and neighbours on the front free endpaper. "To W and K with the warm good wishes of their friend and neighbour in the arts Henry Beston" A very good copy in blue cloth with gelt stamping to the spine and cover in a rare unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with some chips on the spine and wrapper cover. Accompanying the edition are 2 handwritten letters with envelopes. Letter from Henry Beston CHIMNEY FARM NOBLEBORO STATE OF MAINE stationery with envelope and stamp dated Oct 19 1953. Black ink on beige paper. 4 pages. 8 ½" x 3 ½" "Sunday Morning Dear W & K Just "un petit mot" to say that Henry B is once more "home" and that eyes which of late looked forth to Russell Square … now look forward to Damariscotta pond. That long grinding drive home westward and along the Atlantic and the clouds can be a bit boring as well as psychologically unsettling of one s Victorian concepts of space and time I can still remember the four propellers roaring in my bedevilled ears. I spent almost three months in Germany and only two days in a hotel, the rest of the time being spent with friends. A good deal of Germany is still in ruin, but the country is the eternal green farm and castle country of the Meistersinger. Poor France makes me think of some dying provinces of the dying Roman Empire circa 390, say, just before the sun of history sank behind the hills. No man, no sense of the male mind. The French haunt the great …cemeteries of War 1, forever strolling and visiting those silent paths and in the best of order and with one propriety…. THE OUTERMOST HOUSE is a huge success in Paris. Every yours Henry October 18th 53" Letter from Elizabeth Coatsworth CHIMNEY FARM NOBLEBORO STATE OF MAINE embossed stationery with envelope and stamp dated Oct 25 1952. Black ink on beige paper. 4 pages 8" x 5 " "Dear Catherine and … I have just been reading W. H. Hudson's account of Dragonflies in a new anthology by Edwin Way Teale called Green Treasury. … at the moment Henry is busy. the ms. of FAIRY TALES ready to send to the Houghton Library at Harvard who have asked for it. With warmest thanks and good wishes Elizabeth." In AMERICAN MEMORY, Beston draws upon history to remind readers of the enduring beauty and significance of the American wilderness, as well as the importance of preserving the country s natural heritage. Attention admirers and collectors of Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth: Many more unique items from TBCL's private Beston Collection are now available. Please contact us to find out more. HENRY BESTON was an American writer and naturalist, and is considered one of the fathers of the modern environmental movement. His now classic observations of Cape Cod are captured in his classic, The Outermost House, written after Beston spent what he called "a year of life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod", and has been called one of the motivating factors behind the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Author Rachel Carson said that Beston was the only author who ever influenced her writing. Beston married writer Elizabeth Coatsworth in 1929. Seller Inventory # 33860

Bibliographic Details

Title: AMERICAN MEMORY Inscribed and Signed by ...

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, New York

Publication Date: 1937

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.