First Edition of Beston’s The Outermost House

AbeBooks.com, a bookseller’s website, has a listing for a neat first edition of Henry Beston’s classic book, The Outermost House: a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, published by Doubleday in 1928:

“Recased in full blue morroco covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with gilt decorations between five raised bands and with marbled end papers. Without its issued dust jacket. The first free end paper bears a Christmas 1928 gift inscription and the book is signed by Charles D. Keegan "Officer in charge Nauset Station" (which is the Life Saving Station closest to the Outermost House on Cape Cod). Beneath this entry is a copy of a short poem on a 2" by 4" long column from a newspaper which has been tipped-in. 222 pages of text and illustrated with 31 black and white photographic plates. Tipped-in on the second to last free end paper is an essay taken from a magazine by Henry Beston titled: Sound and Life.” Price: $385.

For more information about Henry Beston and his The Outermost House, check out the website of the Friends of Henry Beston and the Beston Family Papers, 1899-1977, at Bowdoin College.