How to be a Hermit or A Bachelor Keeps House

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation , 1937 Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York. 1934. Hardcover. Stated 7th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace shelfwear to tail and tips. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight sunfade to spine. Green cloth boards and spine with brown lettering on the spine with decorations on the spine and front board. 328 pp 8vo. The focus of the book is the author's time living in a shack on a small island, Jones Island, off Long Island's south shore, from 1921 to 1929. The nearby Coast Guard crew helped him repair the shack and shared supplies and recipes with him. In 1929 the encroachment of the Jones State Park forced him off the island, but a dispensation from the head of the parks department allowed him to keep the shack, and he continued to visit the island until his death. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. These gently humorous essays show the difficulty of living alone, dependent on the mercy of the coast guardsmen and the seasonal visitors to the island, who left behind miscellaneous canned goods when they left. He quotes the acerbic comments of his only companion, a black cat.