JEWETT, Sarah Orne.
The Mate of the Daylight and Friends Ashore.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company , 1884.
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First Edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Mate of the Daylight and Friends Ashore
First edition of the author's classic collection, one of only 1500 copies printed. BAL 10881. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge gilt. Book designed by Sarah Wyman. In near fine condition.
In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Sarah Orne Jewett created startlingly vivd portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of the New England character. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean Howells called "an uncommon feeling for talk — I hear your people."
The Mate of the Daylight and Friends Ashore.
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