Stoneware mug, ceramic saucer, cased combination of a fork, spoon and knife; "According to ECB mug was with HB at time of the building/stay at the Outermost House; ECB said saucer was in the Littlest House when she rented it and wrote her book; carried by Beston on his trips as when he wrote about the St. Lawrence River" (JPR).

THE ST. LAWRENCE BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; 1st Edition, 1942, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, Toronto, hard-cover. Original dust jacket, minor wear, with scotch tape at the top of lightly tanned spine. Blue cloth binding. Condition: very good to very fine. Illustrated by A.Y. Jackson. Presentation copy, signed on title page "For Bertha with the warm good wishes of Old Man River himself by Henry Beston December 25th 1942". Note: "Bertha Stringer, Lincoln St. Hingham, Mass.", by JPR.

HERBS AND THE EARTH BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; 1st Edition, 1935, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, hard-cover. Original dust jacket with minor tears, otherwise very good. Condition: overall very good to very fine. Woodcuts by John Howard Benson. Presentation copy, signed on flyleaf "For Miss Carol Clark with all kinds of good wishes from her neighbour and friend, Henry Beston", (JPR collection). 

TOOLS

Stanley wood plane, patd. 1886, "According to Mrs. Beston...used in the Outermost House when Henry was writing there..." (JPR); three steel dividers/compass; small adjustable wrench used at the Outermost House, "E.C. Billings, 1879, Hartford, Conn."; two hand-forged spikes that Henry Beston recovered from bones of an old shipwreck...; and another spike used in shipbuilding found by Henry Beston in Hingham, Mass.; (JPR collection).

THE FIRELIGHT FAIRY BOOK BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; Second Impression, 1923, The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, hard-cover, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and cover decoration. Color illustrations by Maurice E. Day. Condition: very good to very fine. Presentation copy, signed on flyleaf "For George Dunn with the good wishes of the author: Henry Beston", (JPR collection).

THE STARLIGHT WONDER BOOK BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; 1st Edition, 1923, The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, hard-cover, no dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Condition: spine browned, some light spotting on front and back, some spotting inside otherwise good. Presentation copy, signed on flyleaf "To Adra and Ardie with all kinds of fairy tale good wishes from their old friend Henry B.", illustrations by Maurice Day, who illustrated Bambi for Walt Disney. Note: "Adra Soule Waule lived on Main Street Hingham, Mass. Ardie was her daughter.", (JPR collection).

HENRY BESTON'S FOUND OBJECTS

Two items found "from the Marconi Station Site in 1937 from a box of found objects at Outermost House": a washed up bottle from Belfast, Ireland, Grattan & Co Ltd, Ginger Ale, and a small piece of shale with embedded fossil material; Photograph and negative of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station; and a Taxidermy (Dovekie) bird found on the beach near Outermost House, (JPR collection).

NORTHERN FARM BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; 1st Edition, 1948, Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York, Toronto. Original green dust jacket. Condition: overall very fine. Illustrated by Thoreau MacDonald. Presentation copy, signed on flyleaf "To my dear nephew George with all love from his quasi-agricultural uncle Henry"; later presented "To Joseph LaCroix Sincerely George M. Sheahan, Jr. May 28, 1949". "Acquired from the LaCroix's about 1981 by JPR (who also knew the Beston's) from Hingham", (JPR collection).

H. BESTON'S TAPE MEASURE, COMPASS, ETC.

Lufkin measure in a yellow case, "Henry Beston kept it in a drawer at the Outermost House..."; small brass cased compass; paper calendar, "Wm. Leavens & Co Inc., 1927", stamped at top "The Fo'castle, H Beston"; metal perpetual calendar with Indian Chief, "Mohawk Trail"; standard barometer, Charles & Large, Brooklyn, NY, marked "The Fo'castle, H Beston"; metal paperweight in the shape of a steamer longneck clam, marked "Nora June 2 1916"; (JPR collection).

THREE BOOKS BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; The Book of Gallant Vagabonds, dust jacket, 1925, George H. Doran Company, New York; American Memory, dust jacket, 1937, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, "For Roger Lee Branham Esq with every good wish of his old friend, Henry Beston."; White Pine & Blue Water, dust jacket, 1950, Farrar, Strauss and Co., New York; (JPR collection).

TOYS, GIFTS AND WEATHERVANE

Miniature horse drawn wagon, stagecoach and early delivery truck with barrels of beer; Britain 1908 Indian on horseback; spring loaded wooden submarine; metal buffalo "Canada's National Parks 1936"; Henry Beston's whistle, nickel plated, possibly obtained during WWI in France, also had it at the Outermost House; gold plated Gillette razor in a case; a gift of a polished round stone with embedded fossils; and a flat cutout in green and black of a mariner holding a spyglass (11 1/2"), "Henry Beston made it as a sort of wind vane as it was inserted into a wood base that turned on a brass rod", taken to Maine from Hingham. It was named "Mr. Souther as 'Capt Souther says the Winds East' (J. Souther, a shipbuilder, built the house the Beston's lived in in Hingham" (JPR).

SEVEN HARD-BOUND TRAVEL GUIDES

From "H. Beston The Fo'castle": Osgood's Maritime Provinces, signed "H B 1927"; Osgood's New England, 6th Edition, 1879; Baedeker's Canada, includes a typed insert indicating Henry Beston used this guide "during trips to Canada before and during the time he wrote his book on the St. Lawrence River"; Baedeker's United States, 4th Edition, 1909; Walks and Rides About Boston, Edwin M. Bacon, signed on flyleaf "Gertrude Marie Woodbury. Dec 1st 1897, from Walter"; Appleton's Canadian Guide Book, signed "C.A.P.", and "H.B. 1926"; Pilgrim Memorials, Wm. S. Russell, 3rd Edition, 1864; (also includes a "Motor Tours" booklet, 1922); (JPR collection).

BOOKS ON NEW ENGLAND, BOSTON & CAPE COD

Seven books, all from the library of the "Fo'castle H Beston": Cape Cod, Henry D. Thoreau, 1914, signed on flyleaf "Elbert and Lon Allen Provincetown, Oct. 13, 1923."; New England Legends and Folk Lore, Samuel Adams Drake, signed on flyleaf "Grandma Haekes, from her little grandchildren. Willie, Carrie & Sarah. Christmas 1883."; Boston Through the Ages, Irving B. Crosby, 1928, dust jacket; Woods and By-Ways of New England, Wilson Flagg, 1872; Mooncussers of Cape Cod, Henry C. Kittredge, 1937, dust jacket; The Bay Colony, William Dummer Northend, LL.D., 1896, dust jacket with large piece missing on spine; Cape Cod Pilot, Jeremiah Digges, 1937, dust jacket on spine missing; (JPR collection).

BOOKS ON MAINE

Collection of 12 books about Maine, most from H. Beston's library, marked "The Fo'castle, H Beston", including nine In the Maine Woods 1921-1936; Along the Maine Coast, Wilson, W.N., New York & London, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1947, dust jacket; Lost on a Mountain in Maine, Fendler, Donn, U.S.A., The Welles Publishing Co., 1939, dust jacket; We Took the Woods, Rich, Louise Dickinson, Edinburgh, The Riverside Press, 1945, dust jacket; Nine Mile Bridge, Hamlin, Helen, New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1945; Boy Scouts on Katahdin, Eaton, Walter Prichard, Boston & Chicago, W.A. Wilde Co., 1924; Maine Register 1896-7, Donham, G.M., Boston, Ginn & Co., 1896; Haunts of the Hunted, Clifford, Fred H., Bangor, Bangor & Aroostock Railroad Co., 1903; Maine, Workers of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1937; Forest Protection & Conservation in Maine, Colby, Forest H., Journal Printshop & Bindery, Lewiston, 1919; The Young People's History of Maine, Varrey, Geo. J., Portland, Dresser, McLellan & Co., 1877; Maine Woods, Thoreau, Henry D., Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1864; Acts & Resolves of the State of Maine, Auguston, Fuller & Fuller, 1856; A History of Turner Maine, French, Rev. W.R., Portland, Hoyt, Fogg & Denham, 1887; pamphlets including "Potatoes in Maine", "The Prehistoric Oyster Shell Heaps of the Damariscotta River", "Vacation Days in Washington County Maine", "Long Pond Camps", and "In the Maine Woods 1933"; (JPR collection). 

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS ON ALASKA

From the H. Beston collection, primarily on the Gold Rush: "Guide to Alaskan & Klondyke Goldfields", Alaska Mining and Trading Co., (marked "H. Beston"); "Klondike Millions"; Gold Fields of the Klondike, Ingersoll, Ernest, Edgewood Publishing Co., 1897; The Ice Age in North America, Wright, G. Frederick, New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1891; The Alaskan, Curwood, James Oliver, New York, Cosmopolitan Book Co., 1922; Military Reconnaissance in Alaska, Schwatka, Frederick, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1885; (JPR collection).

BOOKS FROM H. BESTON'S COLLECTION

Eight books: The Moose Book, Merrill, Samuel, New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1916; Wild Animal Ways, Thompson, Ernest, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926; A History of Land Mammals, Scott, William, New York, MacMillan Co., 1913; Tracks & Tracking, Brunner, Joseph, New York, Outing Publishing Co., 1909; Field Book of North American Mammals, Anthony, H.E., New York-London, G.P. Putnma's, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921; Thrills of a Naturalist's Quest, Ditmar, Raymond, New York, The MacMillan Co., 1945; Audubon, Rourke, Constance, New York, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1936; (JPR collection).

H. BESTON BOOK COLLECTION

Hard-bound books, primarily Geography, Wilderness, The Plains, The Desert, etc.: Mere Marie of the Ursulines, Repplier, Agnes, New York, Country Life Press, 1931, dust jacket; North Country Life in the Eighteenth Century, Hughes, Edward, London, Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1952; Influences of Geographic Environment, Semple, Ellen Churchill, New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1911; Ice Ages Recent and Ancient, Coleman, A.P., New York, The MacMillan Company, 1926; First Across the Continent, Brooks, Noah, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901; Bill Sewall's Story of T.R., Sewall, William Wingate, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1919; Message from the President of the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1902; The Better Country, Sharp, Dallas Lore, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928; The Cradle of the Queen City, Bingham, R.W., Buffalo, Buffalo Historical Society, 1931; Old Tourpaths, Harlow, Alvin F., New York & London, D. Appleton & Co., 1926, dust jacket; Breaking the Wilderness, Dellenbaugh, Frederick S., New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905; The Gold Hunters, Curwood, James Oliver, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1909; The Desert, Van Dyke, John C., New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930; Sylvan Winter, Heath, Francis George, London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886, dust jacket; Across the Plains, Stevenson, Robert Louis, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905; South Wind, Douglas, Norman, New York, The Modern Library, 1925, dust jacket; Lost Island, Hall, James Norman, Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1944, dust jacket; Story of Geographical Discovery, Jacobs, Joseph, New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1902; (JPR collection).   

H. BESTON'S PHOTOS, LETTERS, ETC.

Collection in two loose-leaf binders, including photographs taken by Henry Beston at the Outermost House, c. 1927; photos of Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston at Chimney Farm; personal letters of Henry Beston; news clippings of Henry Beston; many pamphlets and books of nature, birds, plants; original drawing (cartoon) in a letter to his brother-in-law; many pieces of memorabilia from the Outermost House, "The Fo-castle"; letters from Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston to Henry acquired from the Estate of Margaret Coatsworth Smith of Hingham, Mass.; (JPR collection).

H. BESTON BOOK COLLECTION

Excellent collection of books on Wildflowers, Sea Moss, Trees, etc.; including: Manual of Weeds, Georgia, Ada, New York, The MacMillan Co., 1914; The Sea-Beach at Eb-Tide, Arnold, Augusta Foote, New York, The Century Co., 1903; Sea Mosses, Hervey, A.B., Boston, S.E. Cassino, 1881; How to Know the Mosses, Dunham, Elizabeth Marre, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916, dust jacket; How to Know Wild Fruits, Peterson, Maude Gridley, New York, The MacMillan Co., 1905; How to Know the Wildflowers, Dana, Mrs. William Starr, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903; Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes, Townsend, Charles Wendell, Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1925; Flowers and Ferns in Their Haunts, Wright, Mabel Osgood, New York, The MacMillan Co., 1901; The Book of Wild Flowers, Washington, D.C., The National Geographic Society, 1924; Handbook of the Trees of New England, Dame, Lerin L. & Brooks, Henry, Boston, Ginn & Co., 1902; Gray's New Manual of Botany, Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln & Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, New York, American Book Co., 1908; Western Wild Flowers, Armstrong, Margaret, New York, C.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924; Field Book of Common Grilled Mushrooms, Thomas, William S., New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928; Beach Grass, Townsend, Charles Wendell, Boston, Marshall Jones Co., 1923, dust jacket; Fieldbook of American Wildflowers, Mathews, F. Schuyler, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929; Library Catalogue State Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, Fowler, Frederick H., Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1899; The Valley of Flowers, Smythe, Frank S., New York, W.W. Norten & Co., 1949, dust jacket; The Book of Grass, Francis, Mary Evans, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912; Herbarium and Plant Descriptions, Nelson, Edward T., Boston, Allyn & Bacon, 1888; Lumber and Its Uses, Kellog, R.S., Chicago, The Radford Architectural Co., 1914; The Student Exercise Book, Henry Beston's personal notebook, little use due to water damage; and a collection of early 19th c. pamphlets regarding trees and some other interests such as peat for fuel (approximately 15); (JPR collection).

H. BESTON'S COLLECTION OF BOOKS

Books about New England, including The Penobscot Man, Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1904; Behold the White Mountains, Early, Eleanor, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939, dust jacket; Stagecoach and Tavern Days, Earle, Alice Morse, New York, The MacMillan Co., 1900; The Berkshire Hills, New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1939, dust jacket; Old Paths and Legends of New England, Abbott, Katharine M., New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904; Bradford on Mt. Washington, Washburn, Bradford, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928; Tent in the Notch, Rand, Edward A., Boston, D. Lothrop & Co., 1881; Here's New England - A Guide to Vacationland, Houghton Mifflin & Co.; Along New England Shores, Verrill, A. Hyatt, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936, dust jacket; Modern Classics, Fields, James T. & Hawthorne, Nathaniels, Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1879; The White Mountain Guide Book, Eastman, Edson C., Concord, Lee & Shepard, 1879; The Old Colony; or, Pilgrim Land, issued by the Fall River Line & Old Colony Railroad, Boston, Rand Avery Supply Co., 1889; (JPR collection).

H. BESTON'S COLLECTION OF BOOKS

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain, Mark, New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885; King Longbeard, Macgregor, Barrington, London, John Lane, 1898; Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, Harriet Beacher, Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1897; The Gold Bug, Poe, Edgar, London, George Routledge & Sons, 1894; Lullaby-Land, Field, Eugene, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897; 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas/Around the World in 80 Days, Verne, Jules, Chicago, Donnelley, Loyd and Company, 1876; A Day at the Sea-Side, Barnard, Mrs., Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis; Through the Looking Glass, Carroll, Lewis, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1902, 1st Edition, half dust jacket; (JPR collection).

H. BESTON'S COLLECTION OF BOOKS

Eleven books by Thoreau, Henry D., Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., including: Autumn 1892, Summer 1887, Winter 1888, Early Spring in Massachusetts 1881, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1890, Cape Cod 1891, Letters 1887, Excursions 1893, Walden 1882, Walden (New Riverside Edition) 1893, Sanborn 1910; Seven books by Roosevelt, Theodore, New York, The Current Literature Publishing Co., including: The Spread of English Speaking Peoples 1906, The War in the North West 1906, The Wilderness Hunter 1907, The Indian Wars 1906, Hunting Trips on the Prairie 1907, Hunting the Bison and Grisly 1907, In the Current of the Revolution 1905; and other books from H. Beston's library: The Rescue of an Old Place, Robbins, Mary Caroline, Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1893; The Works of Oscar Wilde, Wilde, Oscar, New York, Walter J. Black, 1927; The Sea-Wolf, London, Jack, New York, The MacMillan Co., 1904; Moby Dick, Melville, Herman, London, Humphrey Milford; A Room of One's Own, Woolf, Virginia, London, Hogarth Press, 1930; Prize Poems, Wagner, Charles A., New York, Charles Boni, 1930; The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Fox Jr., John, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1908; The Adventures of Gerard, Doyle, A. Conan, New York, P.F. Collier & Son, 1903; The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain Vol. 1 & 2, Bourne, Edward Gaylord, New York, A.S. Barnes & Co., 1906; Famous Ghost Stories, McSpadden, J. Walker, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1918; The Conduct of Life, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903; The American Almanac (1834), Boston, Charles Bowen, 1833; Gold Dust, E.L.E.B., New York, E.&J.B. Young & Co.; A Message to Garcia, Hubbard, Eldred, New York, The Roycrofters, 1916; Practical Boat Sailing, Frazar, Douglas, Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1879; Leaves of Grass, Whitman, Walt, New York, H.M. Caldwell Co., 1900; The Sporting News Record Book for 1940, Lanigan, Ernest J., St. Louis, Charles C. Spink & Sons, 1940; The Sporting News Record Book for 1936, Lanigan, Ernest J., St. Louis, Charles C. Spink & Sons, 1936; (JPR collection).

WALKING STICK

Knotted hard wood, curved and knobbed top, complete history, card attached describing the stick being found on the beach in 1926 by Henry Beston as he was writing The Outermost House, it was given to John Richardson on one of his visits to Maine by Henry Beston, 35" l, (JPR collection).

THE LITTLEST HOUSE BY ELIZABETH COATSWORTH

Coatsworth, Elizabeth; The Littlest House, author's copy, initialed "E.C.B." (Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston) on front page, 1st Edition, 1940, The Macmillan Company; along with the framed original artwork cover illustration by Marguerite Davis, 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" (sight), (JPR collection).

PEN AND INK DRAWINGS

Two original pen and ink drawings for The Littlest House by Marguerite Davis, "Dolls live there" said Lydia, "I never, never, never saw such a dear little house", and the book's end paper designs, both on full illustration boards, 22" x 15", (JPR collection).