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Author Name: ROBERTS, KENNETH
Title: Trending Into Maine. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
Publisher: Boston Little Brown 1938
Seller ID: 11437J
First Edition. Signed by the author, Kenneth Roberts on the flyleaf. With the printed slip: ÒCompliments of the Publishers - Little, Brown and CompanyÓ laid in. Additionally, laid in are Two Typed Letters Signed from Kenneth Roberts to the Maine State Librarian. Mrs. Marion Cobb Fuller, regarding the writing of Trending Into Maine. The finest one is dated October 18, 1937 and quoted only in part: Ò...I wish I could burst into wild enthusiasm over it for you. I can't, however, it's given me so much trouble at a time when I want to get started on a new novel. It'll be illustrated with fourteen paintings by N.C. Wyeth, and you know without being told what an excellent workman he is. There'll be about fifteen chapters, covering such things as how a family got a foothold in Maine in the early days...the Maine cooking that I have always found so pleasing, gunning and fishing in Maine, seafaring people I've known...Maine's too big to be covered in a book of this sort....I hated to tackle it, but I committed myself to it two years ago, and I couldn't escape. I believe the publishers plan to to bring it out next June. I see you're curious about where I live. Take a look at the letterhead. Kennebunk Beach is the slum of Kennebunkport.Ó The second letter is earlier dated October 1937 asks Miss Fuller ÒWhat books or books would give me the best picture of Portland around 1803? If you have something pretty good about that period, will you let me look at it?....Ó Roberts thanks Miss Fuller at the beginning of the book's finished text for her assistance in its creation. Fine in a lightly used price-clipped dust jacket with with a tear to the rear panel.
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