RICHMOND, Bernice

NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. First edition. 211pp; illus; [16] b&w plates at rear. Blue cloth; illustrated dust jacket. Two dings to cloth at top of front board; spotting to textblock edges, primarily fore-edge. Jacket shallowly clipped at all edges but with original price still present, toning to spine and rear panel, light soiling. Very good. Memoir chronicling the author and her husband's experiences restoring the Mark Island Lighthouse in Winter Harbor, Maine. With eight plates of photo album-style captioned photographs of rear. Dust jacket and interior illustrations by John O'Hara Cosgrave.