Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine.
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1948.
Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 246 pages. FIRST EDITION. A chronicle of the bucolic Maine farm life of Henry Beston, known today mostly for his magnificent work Herbs and the Earth. Beston and his wife, the poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, lived on a farm in Northern Maine, near the Kennebec River. A classic work of the Rusticator movement. Fine in publisher's green cloth. The price-clipped dust jacket is clean and bright. Signed by the author on the free front endpaper. Laid-in is a printed invitation to a reading by the Beston at the Congress Square Universalist Church of Portland, on the occasion of the publication of this work.
Price: $500.00