Lot 243: Trending Into Maine

[16], 394, [1] pp. Illustrated with 14 color plates, including frontispiece, and color pictorial endpapers by N.C. Wyeth; also, an extra set of 12 color plates by Wyeth for the book inside publisher's printed envelope, laid in. 9 1/2 x6 1/2, linen-backed blue cloth covered boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, edges untrimmed, original plain jacket and the publisher's slipcase. No. 570 of 1075 hand-numbered copies of the Arundel Edition. First Edition.

Signed by Kenneth Roberts and N. C. Wyeth on the limitation page. Author's reminiscences of Maine, beautifully illustrated and includes the additional suite of plates.

1938

Light edge wear and rubbing to slipcase with small residue spot; darkened jacket with chip and tear wear with some creases and a tape repair to lower front panel, couple fingering spots; volume joints with slight red staining, otherwise a fine copy, jacket about very good, slipcase very good or better.

Place: Boston
Publisher: Little, Brown