[Rarebooks] fs: Joseph C. Lincoln's Cape Cod (3 books)

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 7828 )  Lincoln, Joe [Joseph Crosby Lincoln] (1870-1944). CAPE COD 
BALLADS AND OTHER VERSE.
Trenton, NJ: Albert Brandt: Publisher, 1902. First Edition, Full cloth, 
Duodecimo, 198 pages + 2 ads, Drawings by Edward W. Kemble. Very good.
      Nice copy of this beloved Cape Cod author's first book. Though the 
scenes and people depicted here in verse could have been found throughout 
Yankeedom in the day, these particular specimens were known by the author in 
his boyhood "down on the Cape." Bound in yellow cloth over boards gilt spine 
and upper board titles, illustrations stamped in brown on spine and upper 
board. Rough-cut top and bottom edges of textblock. Tissue-guarded 
frontispiece. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Poem titled "In 
Burns' Cottage" clipped from newspaper and pasted to rear pastedown, causing 
brown offsetting to facing free endpaper. Front and rear endpapers have 
minor browning (but no residue) from tape on an old protective cover. Minor 
extremity rubs, a few faint spots to cloth. Hinges not cracked, but a there 
is a short (1/2") split near top edge of front endpaper at hinge. Overall a 
handsome and sturdy copy.    $125.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7828.jpg
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(No. 7827 )  Lincoln, Joseph C[rosby]. (1870-1944). THE MANAGERS: A COMEDY 
OF CAPE COD.
[East Bridgewater]: Baggia Press/Elmwood Bookshop, 1972. Limited edition, 
Wrappers, Duodecimo, [iv], 35 pages, Stage diagram. Fine.
      Copy #130 of 500 in this limited edition. One of a few plays penned by 
Cape Cod's most famous and beloved author of the early 20th century. Bound 
stiff card covers over a saddle-stapled binding. A few tiny rubs at spine 
ends.    $100.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7827.jpg
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(No. 8684 )  Lincoln, Joseph C[rosby]. (1870-1944), Illustrated by Harold 
Brett. CAPE COD YESTERDAYS (SIGNED).
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. Limited edition, Full cloth, 
Octavo, xx, 287 pages, Tipped in color plates. Fine in a very good slipcase.
      A charming book of old Cape Cod reminiscences and lore. This is copy 
#54 of the Chatham Edition, limited to 1,075 copies, SIGNED by both the 
author and the illustrator on limitation page. Illustrated with 18 nostalgic 
color plates by Brett. Printed on all-rag paper and bound in calico cloth 
with tan linen spine, paper spine label, decorated endpapers. Fore and lower 
edges rough-cut, several leaves unopened. Minor wear and browning to 
slipcase.    $125.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/8684.jpg

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