Maine Ballads, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Inscribed first printing, 1938

A first printing of Robert P. Tristram Coffin’s Maine Ballads, published in 1938 at the height of his reputation as one of America’s leading regional poets. Coffin, later Poet Laureate of Maine and a Pulitzer Prize winner, is best known for his vivid evocations of New England life and landscape, and this collection captures his characteristic blend of narrative energy and lyrical precision.

Maine Ballads, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin.

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York. Stated first printing, August 1938.

A good grey linen hardback with gilt titles. The cover has some spotting and discoloration. The dustjacket is quite worn with losses and wear to extremities and some discoloration and marks. now housed in clear, protective, removable plastic. Binding is sound. Offsetting to endpapers. The author's rather pleasing inscription is on the first free endpaper, and is dedicated to a 'Margaret Downes'.

Text is clean and bright throughout with some age toning to edges of text block.

Text in English.

xiv + (2) + 106pp.

Dimensions: approx 218mm high x 150mm wide x 20mm deep.

Weight: approximately 374g (unpacked).