Christmas Days
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1938. Illustrations and Dust Jacket by Harold Brett. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
The story of a boy growing up in Cape Cod who eventually becomes captain of his own ship.
Tan cloth with stamped titles and front decoration in black and blue, The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The wrap-around dust jacket with the price of $1.50 has evenly toned with small losses on the spine tips and on the top edge8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 158 pages. First edition with 1938 on both the title-page and copyright page after a signed limited edition.
Background Information:
Joseph Crosby Lincoln was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and The Delineator.
Lincoln's literary career celebrating "old Cape Cod" can partly be seen as an attempt to return to an Eden from which he had been driven by family tragedy. His literary portrayal of Cape Cod can also be understood as a pre-modern haven occupied by individuals of old Yankee stock which was offered to readers as an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrialization.
Lincoln was aware of contemporary naturalist writers, such as Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, who used American literature to plumb the depths of human nature, but he rejected this literary exercise. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. Six films and a short were based on his work. [wiki]
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