Captain Abby and Captain John

by [MAINE -- BRUNSWICK]. COFFIN, Robert P. Tristram

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New York:: Macmillan Co.,, 1939. 8vo. x, [4], 375, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., plates. Brown cloth, silver lettrng (mnr bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. cover art by Chavanne (large closd tear uppr frnt cvr, edgewear, mnr chppng hd & ft of spine), still VG/G, inscribed by the author on ffep. to Henry Tatnall Brown, Jr., former president of Haverford College, w/ engraved bkplate on frnt pstdn. First edition of this excellent biography of John and Abby Pennell, of Pennellvile, Casco Bay, Maine, who sailed together as family for years. The Pulitzer-winning author intended it as an homage to the bicentennial of Brunswick, Maine in their incorporation as a town.