Where Land Meets Sea: The Tide Line of Cape Cod (signed by the author and renowned artist, Clare Leighton)

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Leighton on the half-title page. Scarce thus, especially in this top condition. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of beautiful engravings by renowned artist, Clare Leighton. Internally fine; bright and clean. Near fine in original cream cloth, slight soiling to back cover edge. In a bright, very good plus patterned dust jacket, (the best we've seen); with light toning to the head of spine, upper front left, and corners. Small quarto. 7.75 x 10.25 in. 202 pp. Overall, a lovely copy of this scarce work by Leighton who shares her love of Cape Cod, nature, and the sea, as few other authors and artists have done.

From the Kirkus Review: "There is devotion and wisdom and sentiment in Claire Leighton's hymn to life- an evocation of the universal in the particular life of Cape Cod. In a serene style which at times is extremely effective, at others awkwardly overweighted, she imparts the eternal essence of events in time. The people of the Cape -- the fishermen who gain faith and dignity from the Blessing of the Fleet, the berry man who cherished his bushes and the berrywoman who delighted in the sweet secrecy of a private stand of bushes -- are eternal figures. There is tender attention to the daily happenings, to seasonal ritual, to pond and bay and backshore waters. The drama of shipwreck, of standing fogbound on an ebbtide flat, of catching a great fish is gently commingled with recollections of the old timers, the passing of the old harbor to new glory and the proud dying of the Wellfleet oyster- houses. Beautiful in its appreciation, rich in its rumination, this is a book for the pensive, the nature-loving, and their kin."