Deephaven
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1894.
Illustrated by Charles And Marcia Woodbury. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #17029
Library stamps/marks/label, edgeworn, spine sunned and label darkened, 1893 Christmas owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Large Paper Edition, #108 of 250 copies, of the first illustrated edition and second edition of Deephaven. Jacob Blanck; Bibliography of American Literature; BAL 10904. First illustrated edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's first novel, a series of sketches of a summer in a sleepy, coastal Maine town. "Sarah Orne Jewett’s first novel, Deephaven (1877), centers on the escapades of two friends, Kate Lancaster and Helen Denis, who summer together at a house Kate’s mother has inherited, in the town of Deephaven, Maine. ... Jewett was inspired to use the house of her birth as the model for the fictional manse, noting in the book details from the front hallway, dining room, library, and second floor rooms, including a pointed description of the wallpaper in the parlor chamber, later Mary’s room. The novel was a success; a second edition was printed in 1894 with illustrations by Marcia Oakes Woodbury and Charles Woodbury. To have the illustrations created, Jewett invited the artist couple into her home to sketch." - Historic New England: Sarah Orne Jewett House.; Ex-Library; vii, 305 pages.
Price: $99.95