GREENE, Sarah P. McLean "Cape Cod Folks" [Dewolfe, Fiske & Co., 1904]

GREENE, Sarah Pratt McLean. Cape Cod Folks.

Boston: Dewolfe, Fiske & Co., 1904. New Edition. 8.5" x 6", xiii + 337pp with a photogravure portrait, 32 full page half-tone engravings, and 25 vignette illustrations. Olive brown cloth with gilt titling and black/tan windmill design + lighthouse on spine. Top edge gilt. Edges of spine somewhat rubbed. Hinges intact and textblock clean. Very Good+.

Cape Cod Folks is a lightly fictionalized account of Sarah Pratt McLean Greene’s experiences as a young schoolteacher in the isolated coastal village of South Wellfleet. Through humorous sketches and sharply observed character studies, Greene depicts the daily life, dialect, and customs of Cape Cod at the turn of the century. The book became popular for its vivid regionalism and remains an early example of New England local-color writing.