A DOWN-EAST YANKEE FROM THE DISTRICT OF MAINE by Daggett, Windsor - 1920

Paperback. Fine . white cover with green lettering, 80 numbered pages, pages lightly tanned, excellent condition

Portland, ME: A. J. Huston, 1920 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Contains stories from Maine, including "A Down-East Yankee from the District of Maine", "John Heal, of Portland", "The Old Assembly Room", "Thomas Shaw of Standish", and "Boating". Illustrated. Some minor edge chipping and yellowing..

Portland, ME: A. J. Huston. VG PB. 1920. John Neal's parents were Quakers, his father a school teacher who died within a month of Neal's birth. He became the most . colorful and controversial of Portland's literary figures. Not meeting success in law or trade, self-educated, Neal turned to literature and became a prolific writer. In England where he spent several years, he was considered the most original and arresting American writer of his day. He wrote an autobiography, Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life, two definitive works about his beloved Portland, several novels, an epic poem, literary criticism, and innumerable articles. His best writing was vigorous and dashing, his worst long-winded and disorganized. He said of his own novel Logan that it should be taken as people take opium, "A grain may exhilarate - more may stupefy - much will be death." Edge wear, corner creases, slight discoloration to back cover. .

Maine: A. J. Huston, 1920. First edition. Paperback. Good. 6 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Condition is GOOD ; covers toned with many edge chips,front cover loose from the stapled binding, which is tight. Text unmarked. PO's name on ffep. Maine. Stax.

Portland, Maine: A.J. Huston, 1920. Softcover. Good. First edition. All black and white plates present. Wrappers. Octavo. 80pp. Binding error duplicating pages 27 to 42, owner name on frontispiece recto, wrappers stained and detached with extremities chipped, corners curled, good only. Biography of John Neal, the first American writer to represent The United States in the British Quarterlies.

A.J. Huston, Portland. 1920. Green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. B/w portrait photograph frontis. 80pp. Sl. wear to extremites. VG

Portland, ME: A. J. Huston, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Author signed on the first free end paper, adding only: "Complements of the Author 1922" Gilt lettering on blue covers. 8vo, 80pp. Edges lightly water stained, not affecting text or illustrations.