Lonesome Cove is one of the least frequented stretches on the New England seaboard. From the land side, the sheer hundred-foot drop of Hawkill Cliffs shuts it off. Access by water is denied; denied with a show of menacing teeth, when the sea curls its lips back, amid a swirl of angry currents, from its rocks and reefs, warning boats away. There is no settlement near the cove. The somber repute suggested by its name has served to keep cottagers from building on the wildly beautiful uplands that overbrood the beach. Sheep ...
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Lonesome Cove is one of the least frequented stretches on the New England seaboard. From the land side, the sheer hundred-foot drop of Hawkill Cliffs shuts it off. Access by water is denied; denied with a show of menacing teeth, when the sea curls its lips back, amid a swirl of angry currents, from its rocks and reefs, warning boats away. There is no settlement near the cove. The somber repute suggested by its name has served to keep cottagers from building on the wildly beautiful uplands that overbrood the beach. Sheep browse between the thickets of ash and wild cherry extending almost to the brink of the height, and the straggling pathways along the edge, worn by the feet of their herders, afford the only suggestion of human traffic within half a mile of the spot. A sharp-cut ravine leads down to the sea by a rather treacherous descent.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Frank E. Schhonover. Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Adams (1871-1958) was a muckraking journalist as well as a novelist (he also wrote more "risque" works under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian"). This mystery followed by a year his Queen's Quorum title, "Average Jones." A spectacular copy of the First Edition, as close to Fine as it may ever get. Green, almost umber, cloth binding, with architectural blinstamping on the front cover. Titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 340 pages. Frontis illustration and four others within by Frank E. Schoonover. Tiny ink notation on rear paste-down. Quercus has noted one turned-down page crease, else pristine. A treat for the fan of Early Mysteries. Lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.
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Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1912. Early printing. Good+/no dust jacket. Early printing of a scarce title. Published 1912, no month on copyright page. Olive green ribbed cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Small spots of wear-through at corners, wear at top and bottom spine edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date neatly penned on front fixed endpaper; old bookstore inkstamp (small) on both front fixed and front free endpaper at upper edge. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 340 pages.
