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COFFIN, ROBERT P. TRISTRAM. Large archive of works.
MAINE MAN COFFIN, ROBERT P. TRISTRAM. Large archive of works. Includes First Editions, Signed and Inscribed copies, some with drawings by Coffin. Mostly New York, 1920s-50s
- Notes: A fairly complete collection of all Coffin''s works including Golden Falcon, An Attic Room, Lost Paradise, Kennebec, Strange Holiness, Saltwater Farm, and more. Poet, novelist, and essayist Coffin (1892-1955) earned an A.M. at Princeton after graduating from Bowdoin in 1915 and before going to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is best known as the author of more than three dozen works of literature, poetry and history, most focusing on his home state of Maine and other New England locales, people (particularly farmers and fishermen), themes, and sometimes vernacular and accent-based rhymes. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1935 with Strange Holiness and began the Rivers of America series with his volume The Kennebec in 1937.
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