(Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornel...)
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(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
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(First edition bound in beige cloth with blue & black pict...)
First edition bound in beige cloth with blue & black pictorial design and lettering. Color pictorial endpapers, b&w ills. by Harold Brett, 8vo size, 158 pages. A Nearly Fine copy, bright & clean with very minimal wear.
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(Cap n Jonadab and me went to the post-office that night; ...)
Cap n Jonadab and me went to the post-office that night; we wan texpecting any mail, thats sartin. I guess likely we done it for the reason the feller that tumbled overboard went to the bottom twas the handiest place to go. Anyway we was there, and I was propping up the stove with my feet and holding down a chair with the rest of me, when Jonadab heaves along side flying distress signals. He had an envelope in his starboard mitten, and, coming to anchor with a flop in the next chair, sets shifting the thing from one hand to the other as if it twas red hot.
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(The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights is prese...)
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Joseph Crosby Lincoln was born on February 13, 1870, in Brewster, Massachusetts, United States, the only child of Joseph and Emily (Crosby) Lincoln. His ancestors on both sides of the family had settled on Cape Cod in the mid-seventeenth century; his father, like his grandfather and uncles, was a sea captain. When Joseph was about a year old his father died, and the boy grew up in the home of his maternal grandmother. He was allowed to roam the Cape at will and thus acquired an intimate knowledge of its distinctive culture and became familiar with the idiom, thrifty ways, and understated humor of its people.
Education
Joseph received his early education at the local school and when about twelve moved with his mother to Chelsea, Massachussets (near Boston), where he attended high school, returning to the Cape each summer. For a time he studied art with the Boston illustrator Henry Sandham.
Career
Lincoln held various jobs, as office boy and bookkeeper in the Boston area and as clerk in a brokerage firm in Brooklyn, New York. Then he opened a commercial art studio in Boston. To help sell his drawings he began supplying them with humorous verses, which attracted favorable notice, and in 1896, when the fever for bicycling was at its height, he became a staff illustrator and associate editor of the Bulletin of the League of American Wheelmen.
Deciding to become a writer, Lincoln returned to Brooklyn in 1899; by day he worked as an editor of a New York banking publication and at night and on weekends he wrote stories and verses. His first short story, set in Cape Cod, was accepted by the Saturday Evening Post, and in 1902 he published a volume of his poems, Cape Cod Ballads, with illustrations by the popular artist Edward W. Kemble. Lincoln's first novel, Cap'n Eri (1904), brought him immediate success and fame. Its hero is one of three old sea captains who, in need of a housekeeper, advertise for a wife. The humorous complications that ensue, the fresh portrayal of the Cape Cod atmosphere and characters, and passages of convincing realism in an unpretentious but well-told story made the book a best seller, and it went through many printings. A second novel, Partners of the Tide, was published in 1905, and others appeared thereafter, at the rate of one or two a year, until shortly before Lincoln's death.
The titles provide a kind of inventory of the harvest he drew from a lean but to him inexhaustible soil. They include Cy Whittaker's Place (1908), The Depot Master (1910), Cap'n Warren's Wards (1911), Extricating Obadiah (1917), The Portygee (1920), Galusha the Magnificent (1921), Great Aunt Lavinia (1936), and, his last novel, The Bradshaws of Harniss (1943). Critics deplored the worn copybook morality of his plots, the repetitiousness of his tales, the lack of intellectual content, his sentimentality, and his convenient reliance on stereotypes. But the humor never flagged, and Lincoln fulfilled his aim in telling a story skillfully and projecting the character and flavor of a long-vanished Cape Cod.
In the last years of his life failing eyesight made writing difficult. He died of a heart ailment in his apartment at Winter Park, Florida, at the age of seventy-four and was buried at Chatham.
Achievements
Lincoln was a prominent prolific author of best-selling verses, stories, and novels that portrayed life along the shore of Cape Cod with nostalgia and humor. During his career he wrote more than forty novels and none of them was a failure; their sales ranged from 30, 000 to 100, 000 copies.
Lincoln was an active member of the Unitarian Church.
Personality
Lincoln's son described him as "short, fat, laughing, and infinitely friendly, " a frank sentimentalist who loved Cape Cod, people, and good food. The author Hamlin Garland, in a friendly but not undiscerning appraisal, wrote of Lincoln's "keen sense of character" and his "democracy of sentiment and fancy which never--or very seldom--loses its hold on the solid ground of experience. "
Interests
Lincoln's chief hobbies were fishing and golf.
Connections
On May 12, 1897, Lincoln married Florence E. Sargent of Chelsea. They had one son, Joseph Freeman, who in later life became his father's collaborator on several books.
