Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894.

The first edition to include the Woodbury illustrations. To have the illustrations created, Jewett invited the artist couple into her personal home to sketch.

Deephaven was Jewett’s first published book, which originally appeared in 1877. Comprised of a series of sketches, the novel focuses on Helen Denis and Kate Lancaster, best friends who visit the house of a deceased Aunt during the Summer, located in a sleepy coastal town. Purported to have been inspired by Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, the story brims with lesbian undertones. In fact, the character of Kate Lancaster is believed to be inspired by Jewett’s friend Kate DiCosta Birckhead, for whom Jewett appears to have had romantic longings.

“It seemed as if all the clocks in Deephaven and all the people with them, had stopped years ago, and the people had been doing over and over what they had been busy about during the last week of their unambitious progress.”

An attractive edition of this early example of queer fiction.

8vo., two-tone green and cream cloth, lettered and embossed in gilt with floral strand design to upper board; lettered in gilt to backstrip with publisher’s name to foot; red coated endpapers; pp. [v], vi-vii, [ii], 2-305, [iii]; author’s frontis portrait behind mounted tissue guard, proliferated with head and tail images, in-text and full page illustrations throughout by Charles and Marcia Woodbury; cloth bumped at corners and frayed to spine tips; boards a little dirtied; internally clean, for the most part; cracked at hinges with some webbing showing through; previous owner’s name to front free endpaper; contents page with one small closed tear, and beginning to pull away from the rest of the block at foot; one small patch of offsetting to p. 68/69.