Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, (1928). The author's classic, subtitled "A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod." Beston's book became a beacon for the environmental movement, advocating a reorientation of the relationship between man and nature; its argument for the value of the natural world, in its own right, helped provide the basis for the creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Inscribed by the author: "For Miss Leonard with the homage of her friend the Outermost Householder/Henry Beston." A very good copy with a heavily sunned spine and lighter edge-sunning to the boards, and a short tear with a little cloth loss at the spine. Illustrated with photographs by William Bradford and others. An important book, and very uncommon signed or inscribed. [#028156] SOLD

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