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Jewett, Sarah Orne. Deephaven. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894, 1894.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), half tan cloth, with decorative green cloth over boards, t.e.g. Frontis., 305 pp. CONDITION: Fair, spine damp-stained and toned, light foxing, frontis. and table of contents page torn along inner edge but attached.

Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Deephaven. Riverside Press / Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1894.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition of 250 copies, this being #41. Hardcover in Very Good condition, 8vo, pages: vii,[i],305. Khaki paper-covered boards, white cloth shelf-back with paper title-label, cloth tips, edges untrimmed, title page in red and black, 52 illustrations (as called for) including head- and tail-pieces, all finely produced and pasted-on (chine-colle). Tips and spine ends lightly worn, tape residue on spine ends and end-papers. Bookseller accession no.: 20001. From a NY Times review 28 April 1877, "Deephaven is a prolonged study of some New-England seaside port, like New-Bedford or Portsmouth, which has had former glories of West Indian or whaling trade, and now abounds in women, old sailors, and boys. .it is by some mistake, doubtless, that it got into print at all." Richard Cary, in 1972, suggests that this review was written, ".from a height of urban contumely (and) brings her down with the roughest rebuke she is ever to receive." Needless to say, Jewett's popularity has greatly increased since the late 19th Century.

Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Deephaven. [With a New Preface by the author for this edition]. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Large Paper Edition, one of 250 copies. Illustrated by Charles and Marcia Woodbury, with 52 half tone engravings on tissue tipped in. vii, [i], 305pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 10904; Boleman, Babette Ann, "Deephaven and the Woodbury's", The Colophon(No. 3,September 1933) Illustrated by Charles and Marcia Woodbury, with 52 half tone engravings on tissue tipped in. vii, [i], 305pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Jewett, Sarah Orne with Illustrations by Charles and Marcia Woodbury. Deephaven (Limited Large Paper Edition). Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition thus, one of 250 special "Large Paper" copies of which this is number 191. Originally published in 1877. This edition with illustrations by Charles and Marcia Woodbury. Gray-green paper over boards with smooth white cloth spine and tips. Printed buff paper label at spine with vellum endpapers. Very faint touches of soiling to spine else a fine, truly lovely copy. From the library of Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tad Mosel who has signed his name on the front endpaper.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Deephaven. Illustrated by Charles and Marcia Woodbury. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894.

Price: US$302.50 + shipping

Description: First Edition thus, one of 250 copies numbered in red on the verso of the title page. With the addition of an eight-page Preface for this edition by the author, Sarah Orne Jewett. 8vo; [i-x] [1]306pp.;305pp; original drab paper over boards with smooth white cloth spine and tips; printed buff paper label at spine; covers slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, very good+. Illustrated by Marcia and Charles Woodbury with fifty-two half-tone engravings that are printed and chine colled to text pages. This handsome edition of the writer's first book reflects Sarah Orne Jewett's wide popularity among her contemporaries. A handsome edition of the author's first book. When DEEPHAVEN appeared in 1877, critics and readers alike recognized a new voice in the value of using local speech and realistic detail to reflect uniquely American character within a loosely-woven plot structure. Sarah Orne Jewett read and absorbed Stowe's work and in DEEPHAVEN, and the books to follow refined the sense of place and character to become the most eloquent and masterful of the regionalist writers. By 1894 her publishers though a gift edition would find favor with the book's many admirers. Jewett wrote a new preface noting the many great changes that had occurred in the life of provincial New England since the book's first appearance; and suggested to the publisher that her good friends Marcia and Charles Woodbury illustrate the new edition. The book was the subject of an article by Babette Ann Boleman for THE COLOPHON entitled "Deephaven and the Woodburys". She noted that the two artists were "such intimate friends of Sarah Orne jewett's that they could work in the most amicable collaboration with her. Above all, they knew DEEPHAVEN -- all the Deephaven's of the New England coast". Marcia Oakes Woodbury, like the writer, had been born and raised in South Berwick and attended Berwick Academy; moreover,her husband Charles Woodbury was noted for his 'artistic fascination with the shifting surfaces of the sea'. To ease communication as the Woodbury's worked on their engravings, the artists took up residence in South Berwick. Just a few minutes walk away from Miss Jewett, the three conferred frequently. The writer made numerous suggestions which appear to have been acted upon; Miss Jewett's house, a number of local scenes and various relatives became backgrounds or models for the illustrations. The writer took great pleasure in the book when it appeared for it had evolved out of a deeply sympathetic collaborative effort. The scenes of the Maine shore are sweetly harmonious with the mood and tone of DEEPHAVEN and beautifully render the evocative quality of the text. BAL 10904. Boleman, Babette Ann, "Deephaven and the Woodbury's", THE COLOPHON (No. 3,September 1933). Also, THE BOSTONIANS, Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930.

Seller: Priscilla Juvelis Inc., ABAA, Kennebunkport, ME, U.S.A.