JEWETT, Sarah Orne.
The Country of Pointed Firs.
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs; Signed by Her
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1896.
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First edition, early printing of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sarah O. Jewett at the Fair 15 December 1898." In near fine condition, small bookplate to the front free endpaper.
Willa Cather, ranked The Country of the Pointed Firs along with Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter as the American work of fiction most likely to be acknowledged by posterity as an immortal masterpiece. It memorializes the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character.
The Country of Pointed Firs.
$1,250.00
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