Uncle Terry: A Story of the Maine Coast

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Good-Collectible. Helena Higginbotham. 5.4"x7.75" 365 pgs. Maroon cloth w/gilt letters on front and spine w/pasted faded pic on front. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages soft tone. Not x-library. PON on ffep. Top edge gilt. Foxing inside boards. Tissue over b&w frontispiece: "The Home of Uncle Terry". Moderate edge wear w/rubs & fraying. Discoloration spots to cover. Secure ship w/track #. "It's goin' to be a nasty night," said Uncle Terry, coming in from the shed and dumping an armful of wood in the box behind the kitchen stove, "an' the combers is just a-humpin' over White Hoss Ledge, an' the spray's flyin' half way up the lighthouse." "The Lord-a-massy help any poor soul that goes ashore to-night," responded a portly, white-haired woman beside the stove, as a monster wave made the little dwelling tremble. Uncle Terry took off his dripping sou'wester and coat, and, hanging them over the wood box, went to the sink and began pumping a basin of water. "Better have some warm, Silas," said the woman, taking the steaming kettle from the stove and following him; "it's more comfortin'." When he had washed, and combed his scanty gray locks and beard at a small mirror, he stood for a moment beside the stove. His weather-beaten face that evinced character, so pronounced were its features, wore a smile, and his deep-set gray eyes emitted a twinkle.