[INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]. Captain Abby and Captain John : An Around the World Biography

by Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
New York: The Macmillan Company. 1939. Hardcover. 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), orange cloth. Frontis., xiv, 375 pp., 5 b&w plates. Early author gift inscription in ink to Ernest Haskell at ffep. Additional gift inscription from Haskell reading "Happy birthday to Granddad, from Ernest." at ffep. CONDITION: Very good, spine slightly cocked, minimal wear to covers with some soiling at rear, endpapers and pastedowns browned. First edition. Inscription by Coffin reads "To Ernest Haskell, in my class and in my fraternity at Bowdoin. 'Poetry is the art of putting different kinds of good things together.' 'Poetry is saying the best that can be said about life.' 'Poetry is the language of the definite which as prose is the language of the 'indefinite.' Robert P. Tristram Coffin." From the library of etcher and poster-artist Ernest Haskell. (Inventory #: 9308)
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