Description
The first edition, first printing of Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine by Henry Beston.
Octavo, viii, 246pp. Publisher’s green cloth, title stamped in silver on the spine. Illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald. The first printing, with the Rinehart colophon on the copyright page. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Light dust remnant along top of text block. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, price clipped, light shelf wear.
Northern Farm records a year of rural Maine life, with observations on the seasons, animals, fields, weather, local work, and the rhythms of farm and village life. Beston is best known for The Outermost House, and Northern Farm remains one of his principal works of American nature writing.
