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The Outermost House

by Henry Beston

The Work

First published
1928
Original publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company
Originally published in
Garden City, New York

Drew's Copy

Edition
Ballantine paperback edition
Printing
Thirteenth printing, October 1990
Publisher
Ballantine Books / Random House
Published in
New York
Copy published
1990
ISBN
0-345-33420-5
Binding
Mass-market paperback
Collection status
On the shelves
Reading status
Read
Condition
Well-read family copy with cover wear, edge wear, creasing, and age-toned pages
Cape CodNature WritingBeachesCoastal EcologyMemoir

Acquisition & Provenance

Acquisition type
Inherited family book
Context
Kept by Drew's father after his grandfather's death, then brought by Drew when he moved to Florida
Previous owner
Drew's grandfather, Rex
Inscription / bookplate
The opening epigraph is inscribed: “Previously owned by Rex — 4.17.2021 — Drew.”
Provenance
A three-generation family copy connecting Drew’s grandfather and father with Drew’s own move to Florida’s Atlantic coast.

How This Copy Came to the Library

This was a book my dad kept when my grandpa passed. When my wife and I moved to Florida, we got extremely lucky and found a place beachside of the A1A, so I packed this book when we made the move.

About This Copy

This is the thirteenth printing of the Ballantine paperback edition, published in October 1990. The cover photograph is by Morgan Kane. Its wear and ownership inscription preserve the book’s life across three generations of Drew’s family.

Memories & Connections

This was a book my dad had kept when my grandpa passed. When I moved to Florida, my wife and I got extremely lucky and were able to find a place beachside of A1A. So I packed this book when we made the move.

The beachside home near A1A where Drew and his wife lived when he brought The Outermost House to Florida.

My grandpa was a successful writer and had a deep appreciation for the written word, for authors who were better understood as artists. That is what I remember of this book: a deep, poetic appreciation for a stretch of natural beach coast in the Northeast.

Drew's Copy
Front cover of Drew's copy of The Outermost House
The beach photograph on Drew's well-read Ballantine paperback copy of The Outermost House.
Back cover of Drew's copy of The Outermost House
The back cover describes Beston's year in a simple house on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.
Title page of Drew's copy of The Outermost House
The Ballantine Books title page for The Outermost House.
Copyright page of Drew's copy of The Outermost House
The copyright page identifies this copy as the thirteenth Ballantine printing, issued in October 1990, with a cover photograph by Morgan Kane.
ISBN page of Drew's copy of The Outermost House
The ISBN and barcode printed inside the front of the book.
Epigraph and ownership inscription of Drew's copy of The Outermost House
Beston's meditation on nature and humanity, with Drew's handwritten record of the copy's passage from his grandfather Rex to him.