Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals

Andover, Massachusetts: [self published], 1929. [STATE OF MAINE] [HISTORY] [SIGNED BY AUTHOR] [PHOTOGRAPH]. 8vo; 167pp; bright green cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and vignette of a sailboat on the front; author's inscription on ffep dated "1930"; b&w photographic illustrated portrait fp; b&w photographic illustrations in text; unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a b&w portrait of the author in the front and his facsimile signature, light soiling to dj; a 3 ½" x 4 ¾" b&w photograph of the author with an unidentified man laid in; fine in very good dj. Oscar Laighton (1839-1939) was an author from New Hampshire and brother of the poet Celia Thaxter. This book records his interesting recollections and musings of his ninety years on the Isles of Shoals. The islands span the border of New Hampshire and Maine. The author moved there when he was 3 months old and his father took up a lighthouse keeper position.

The inscription on the free front endpaper reads "O, welcome days that bring me Joy! / Star Island / August 4, 1930 / Oscar Laighton.".