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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Presumed first edition (no additional printings listed). Original brown cloth, 5x8 ½ inches, 64 pp, illustrated with small black and white drawings by Rockwell Kent. Hardcover, fine in very good dustjacket. Spine portion of dustjacket and margins age tanned, ¼ inch tear and several lesser nicks and chips, price present. Book itself is tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Poetry; modern first; literature
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust Jacket chipped, torn. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Illustrator: Rockwell Kent. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22717.
Seller: Archer's Used and Rare Books, Inc., Kent, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. 1931. Good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth titled in gilt with vignette stamped in gilt on front cover. The covers are lightly rubbed & soiled, with the top edge of the rear cover faded; the spine is slightly faded. 64 pages. There is an owner's book label on the front endpaper. Illustrated with black-and-white head-pieces by Rockwell Kent. Good. First edition.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. CITY CHILD. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: In brown cloth with gilt decoration. Fascinating poems decorated by Rockwell Kent. About fine in a fine facsimile jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Selma Robinson, designs by Rockwell Kent. CITY CHILD. Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean but sunned at tops and spine. Minor shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's name and address on ffep. Text spotless. RK. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth, light wear at spine ends. Dust jacket has a couple tiny chips at upper spine end, spine slightly browned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child, Poems. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, New York, 1931.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: -; Very Good. No dust jacket. Spine sunned.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover book complete in its original printed dust jacket (unclipped). 22 cm. 64 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. The book is in near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Light edge wear/tear, rubbing, soiling to the dust jacket.
Seller: JNBookseller, Palm Harbor, FL, U.S.A.
ROBINSON, Selma. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. City Child. Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First regular printing. Scattered foxing, thin dampstain on top edges, cloth faded, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.37 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 64 pages; Description: 64 p. Illus. 22 cm. Form/genre: Poems. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Description: New York: The Colophon, 1931. Laid-in are two pieces of ephemera from the publisher: a prospectus for CITY CHILD by Selma Robinson with decorations by Rockwell Kent. The prospectus has a Rockwell Kent illustration. Also laid-in is a notice for a 1931 "first exhibition" of Colophon artists' designs and authors' manuscripts. Very Good+ condition. NO chips or tears. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Part 6 only. Includes articles on Huckleberry Finn, Richard Savage, Robert Burns portraits, "Pacific News" (this signature printed by the Grabhorn Press), and "Wood Nymphs", a linoleum cut by K. M. Ballantyne. Designs by T. M. Cleland. Among the contributors are Willa Cather on her early novels, Stanley Morison, and A. E. Coppard on first getting into print. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition, Limited 3,000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Ballantyne, K. M.; & Rockwell Kent (ephermera). 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. CITY CHILD: Poems. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1931.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 64 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Faint sunning to edges of binding. Small "Byron Detroit" label on front blank endpaper. DJ moderately soiled. Spine sunned. Light chipping to corners and spine ends. Illust. w/ many decorations. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
ROBINSON, Selma. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. City Child. Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third edition. Owner's name penned on front fly, cloth edges lightly faded, else a very good copy in a very good faded dustwrapper with small nicks on edges. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. CITY CHILD: Poems. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 64 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on binding. Very bright and clean. Sunning to bottom edge of front cover. DJ has wear and tear to edges w/ pieces missing from top edges. Spine sunned. Illust. w/ b/w decorations. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Selma Robinson. City Child. Poems.. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slim octavo. 64pp. Poems, illustrated with forty vignettes by Rockwell Kent. Internally fine but for one small ink spot to each of three pages, as though someone wanted to mark their favorite poems. Light sunning to top edge of red-brown cloth boards. Rose-colored dust jacket, with Kent vignette, sunned at spine and edges, with small chips to edge, and half-inch closed tear along spine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 64 pages; Description: 64 p. Illus. 22 cm. Form/genre: Poems. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 64pp.; HB brwn.w/gilt emboss-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on corners; spine sunned; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. Poetry. includes advert.paper w/drawing by Robinson. inscribed to Carl Van Doren w/author sketch
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
(Kent, Rockwell) Robinson, Selma. City Child. Poems. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, New York, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Early printing. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. 64 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth. Fine, in Very Good dust jacket partially split at spine Decorations by Rockwell Kent. 64 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 64p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: 64 pages. 21.5 x 12.5 cm. Plethora of Kent vignettes heading Robinson poetry titles. Laid-in a sweepstakes entry to be signed for a chance to win a copy of the limited edition of Child Poems. Orig. chocolate brown cloth with gilt front cover decoration. Fine in near fine dust wrapper
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.60 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 64. each poem illus. with a headpiece by Rockwell Kent. cloth (2-cm tear to head of front joint, one corner frayed). First Trade Edition, Signed by Robinson.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
[KENT, Rockwell]. ROBINSON, Selma. City Child.. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1931., 1931.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition. Thin 8vo. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Original gilt stamped brown cloth. Pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; slight soiling). Very good-fine, fresh copy. Bookplate of Edward L. Glaser on the front pastedown.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child; Poems. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1931.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, 64pp; brown cloth. Inscribed and signed by the poet on the front flyleaf. Spine stamping dull, very good in a lightly sunned dust jacket with some small chips and tears, mended on the underside with paper-tape. In custom cardboard slipcase.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
ROBINSON, Selma. City Child: Poems. , 1931.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: ROBINSON, Selma. City Child: Poems. Original cloth-backed fancy boards, printed paper spine label, housed in publisher's cloth and printed boards slipcase. New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. First edition. One of 300 copies on Japanese paper printed at the Walpole Printing Office signed by the author. Lithographic frontis and illustrations by Rockwell Kent, who also signed the book by leaving his mark, a thumbprint within a red heart, on the colophon. Small bookplate, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Selma Robinson; illustrated by Rockwell Kent. City Child. The Colophon Ltd., 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. 64 pp. First limited edition (No. 252 of 300), printed exclusively for subscribers to The Colophon. Printed on Shogun paper at the Walpole Printing Office, SIGNED on the limitation page by the author and by illustrator Rockwell Kent with a red heart fingerprint stamp. Teal blue cloth spine with black and white art deco patterned paper over boards and a paper title label on the spine. In VG condition with lightly toned pages and protective plastic cover. Slipcase missing. Some page gatherings remain uncut at head. Includes the lovely bookplate of Smith College graduate Ellen Cox Ewing (Class of 1929) and her husband Thomas Stone, a Canadian diplomat. Ellen and Tommy were married in August 1930; she and their baby daughter died in childbirth the following June.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. ROBINSON, Selma.. City Child: Poems.. The Colophon Ltd., New York, 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 64 [1] pp. With Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Tall 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed decorated boards in slipcase. First edition; No. 74 of 300 copies, signed by Selma Robinson and by Rockwell Kent, using his mark. Old armorial bookplate; a few light stains to front endsheets; very slight use to boards in a lightly sunned slipcase.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child. Poems. The Colophon Ltd, New York, 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Copy 267 of 300 copies each signed by the author and with Kent's heart-shaped fingerprint marking. Plate and decorations by Rockwell Kent. 64 pp. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper at the Walpole Printing Office. 1 vols. 8vo. With Kent's fingerprint marking. Mill/back/3/3/ Original cloth-backed decorated boards. Some light darkening of spine, else fine. Bookplate. Original publisher's box Plate and decorations by Rockwell Kent. 64 pp. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper at the Walpole Printing Office. 1 vols. 8vo First edition. Copy 267 of 300 copies each signed by the author and with Kent's heart-shaped fingerprint marking.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Later Printing (no Farrar symbol on copyright page). A Fine copy in chocolate cloth, in a Near Fine dull orange paper dustwrapper, price-clipped. 64pp. with each poem decorated with a vignette under its title. This copy is INSCRIBED by Kent at the top of the free front endpaper "For Henry Briggs by Rockwell Kent" and bears the custom bookplate of Henry Briggs affixed to the front pastedown. Light verse, some of which appeared originally in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and various New York daily newspapers. Text and endpapers otherwise clean and unmarked. Q17070
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Selma Robinson. City Child. The Colophon Ltd, New York, 1931.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Robinson's poetry is enhanced by Rockwell Kent's illustrations, in one of 300 copies of this book, all signed by Robinson and printed on Japanese paper. Robinson's career began with this collection of poetry, and became the editor of McCall's magazine in 1956. Blue cloth spine with art-deco design paper covered boards. Slipcase with same blue cloth with printed paper wrap. Paper title to spine. One of 300 copies, signed by Selma Robinson, and with a red heart "fingerprint" stamp from Kent. Fore and tail edge of pages are rough-cut. Condition: Paper covers to slipcase are slightly faded. Very minor bumping to corners. Book is near fine, text and illustrations are vibrant and clean. Page gatherings remain uncut at head.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma and Rockwell Kent. City Child: Poems. Colophon Ltd, New York, 1931.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: Gray and light blue paper boards with slate blue cloth spine; white title block with black lettering on spine; 64 uncut pages with small bw illustrations throughout. Matching slipcase. "This book, one of three hundred copies each signed by the author and by the artist exlusively for subscribers to the Colophon . This copy being number 209. [Signed] Selma Robinson. Rockwell Kent his mark [red heart]. VG+/VG (book and covers are very clean and clear. Slipcase has light age toning and light shelfwear)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma and Rockwell Kent(illustrator). City Child. The Colophon Ltd, New York, 1931.
Price: US$231.75 + shipping
Description: Narrow Octavo. Limited to 300 copies. The present copy is #201 signed by Selma Robinson and with Rockwell Kent's mark, a red heart thumb print. This copy printed on Shogun Japanese paper at the Walpole Printing Office, bound by Peter Franck with a full-page lithograph by Kent. Bound in 1/4 blue cloth over decorative gray paper covered boards, paper spine label lettered in black, housed within publisher's slipcase, some toning to slipcase. A very nice copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. 64pp. Small octavo [22 cm] Teal blue cloth spine with black and white patterned paper over boards, and a printed paper title label on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper. In a matching thin card slipcase. The book is in very good condition, with only minor toning of the covers, and the slipcase is in very good condition, with age-toning and light rubbing at the corners. With decorations by Rockwell Kent. Number 84 in an edition of 300, printed exclusively for subscribers to The Colophon, A Book-Collector's Quarterly. Signed by Selma Robinson on the limitation page. Rockwell Kent has signed as well, by leaving his mark, a thumbprint within a red heart, on the limitation page, below Robinson's signature.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.