Cape Cod Calamities

Softcover / Pictorial Card Wrappers. Octavo. 76 pp. Striking black and blazing orange-red pictorial wrappers featuring a dramatic duotone photograph of a engulfed wooden structure on fire, with printed "95¢" price circle at upper left and "Scallop Recipes Inside!" banner at upper right. Richly illustrated throughout with archival black-and-white photographs of maritime disasters, coastal shipwrecks, harbor blazes, fierce winter storms, and town calamities, interspersed with traditional local scallop recipes. A pristine, collector-grade copy in Fine condition: tight, square, and completely unread with a firm, uncreased spine and razor-sharp corners. The glossy black-and-orange covers show deep, rich contrast with zero creasing, fading, chipping, or edge shelfwear (no mylar). Interior pages are clean, bright, white, and completely unmarked throughout, free of former owner signatures, bookplates, or foxing. A classic, scarce piece of Outer Cape folklore and historical disaster reporting by independent chronicler Noel W. Beyle. Compiling dramatic regional accounts, Beyle details major fires, catastrophic coastal shipwrecks along the Atlantic graveyard of the Atlantic, hurricanes, nor'easters, and local mishaps across Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, Orleans, and Provincetown. Blends historic devastation with Beyle’s trademark dry Yankee humor and authentic Cape Cod scallop dishes.…