Edition:  Facsimile Repring 1981 Binding: Paper Back  Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company  First Published: 1936  Condition: Fine. Illustrated by author, 313 pgs, B/W sketches throughout, tight binding. Summary:  "The typical American village is very different from the typical English one, but it is none the less beautiful for that. In the American scene the streets are broad, shadowed by tall, graceful, "wine glass" elms, the like of which exist nowhere else in the world. The houses are, for the most part, old, of the gracious and dignified styles of the late Georgian and neo-classic periods. And there is at least one ghostly white church built in the same tradition. It happened that these farming hamlets were passed over by the Industrial Revolution; Progress, like the priest and Levite, "passed by on the other side." Thus their beauties were spared to charm a generation that had almost forgotten that leisure and simplicity ever existed.  Of these villages, Nantucket is the queen. To a greater degree than any other, Nantucket possesses the special virtues of the American village. And the purpose of this book is to catch as  far as possible the particular charm of this little island town, its rich history, with its traditions, its characters, its streets and wharves and houses, and its surrounding moors."  Personal note:  A charming book and a fun read.  This paperback edition is perfect for the beach.

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