Description: (8) MAINE BOOKS BY ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN (1892-1955), SOME SIGNED, SOME FIRST PRINTINGS
All hardcover, published by Macmillan and Co., New York, including: "Portrait of an American", 1931, October (first) printing, signed by Elsie P.R. Coffin on front endpaper, "Elsie P.T. Coffin (the former Elsie Potter Robinson), no dj; PLUS "Saltwater Farm", 1937, stated second printing, signed and inscribed to Mary J. Hyatt, who "has heard me read some of these poems", no dj; PLUS "Strange Holiness", 1937, third printing, signed and inscribed to Gertrude Tiemer Willsa and Normera Mackinson at Pennellville on Sept 7, 1937, stated third printing, with dj; PLUS "There Will Be Bread and Love", 1942, stated first printing, in brodart dustjacket (damaged), signed with drawing and inscription to "all my Brothers in Tau Kappa Phi" and having their bookplate; PLUS "Book of Uncles", 1942, stated first printing, signed and inscribed on the front endpaper to Lamda Chapter of Zeta Psi, and with their bookplate, no DJ; PLUS "Mainstays of Maine", 1944, stated second printing, in damaged dustjacket; PLUS "Yankee Coast"(abetted by Peggy Coffin),1947, stated first printing, signed by Robert and Peggy on the front free endpaper, in brodart dustjacket (damaged); PLUS "Apples by Ocean", 1950, stated first printing, in brodart dj (damaged).