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Kent, Rockwell. N By E 1ST Edition Limited Signed. RANDOM HOUSE, 1930.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York Literary Guild January 1930 Binding: Hardcover Signed by author on free front end page, dust jacket in protective mylar. clean, tight binding, gift quality 1st edition $NRP

Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

KENT, Rockwell.. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 245 [1] pp. Illustrated. Folio, publisher's decorated cloth in slipcase. First edition.; No. 38 of 900 copies, signed by Rockwell Kent. Slight sunning to the spine; otherwise a fine copy in a lightly rubbed and worn slipcase. The printed paper label on the slipcase is either heavily restored or a facsimile.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Rockwell Kent. N by E. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Rockwell Kent, illustrator and artist signed limited edition of N by E published in 1930 by Random House. This is # 283 of a limited signed edition of 990, signed by Kent on the limitation page in the back of the book. There is some separation of the back end paper from the cover. The binding while intact is loose and there is some sunning to the cover. There is some soiling or smudging of ink other than the signature’s ink around the signature. Priced accordingly.

Seller: Custodians of History, Inc., Plymouth, MA, U.S.A.

Rockwell Kent. N By E 1ST Edition Limited Signed. RANDOM HOUSE January 1930, 1930.

Price: US$142.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: #371 of 900 signed by Rockwell Kent. used hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket and slip case. cloth is sunned at the spine and edges with some snags in the cloth. some soiling to the page edges and some white staining (paint?) on rear cover. corners slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws save for the lack of the original jacket and case.

Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell. N By E 1ST Edition Limited Signed. RANDOM HOUSE, 1930.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED on first free end page in Rockwell Kent's small, precise signature. 1930 First Edition by Brewer and Warren. This is not the limited, numbered edition. Tight, clean binding. No Jacket. No marks. Spine is slightly sunned.

Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.

Melville, Herman and Rockwell Kent (Illustrated). Moby Dick, or The Whale. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: The first trade edition of the verions illustrated by Rockwell Kent and following the Lakeside Press edition. A well loved copy of this much coveted edition in black pictorial cloth with silver foil to type and illustrations on cover and spine. Frayed/rubbed through at spine ends and corners with some fabric loss, rounding at corners, and tear to rear spine crease as well. Scuffing and pigment loss to illustrations and type on covers and some marks/spots. Page ends and endpapers tanned with long gift inscription to ffep and some spots/smudges to endpapers with some moisture staining to front edges of rear endpapers. Text block fairly clean with some creasing to previously folded corners and a few stray spots/marks. Page follwing ffep torn out at base with small portion of mull showing, but binding remarkably solid. In brand new high quality facsimile jacket. 1st Printing

Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.

KENT, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Quarto. 245pp. Bookplate of a noted artist, spine a bit toned, cloth frayed a bit on the spine ends, closed tears in mid-pages of 131-134, a near very good copy lacking both the unprinted tissue dustwrapper and slipcase. Copy 412 of 900 numbered copies Signed by the author. An attractive volume by Kent about his Arctic sojourn.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell.. N BY E.. Random House: NY, 1930.

Price: US$172.50 + shipping

Description: Illustr by Rockwell Kent, 11.25 x 8.25, silver decorated blue cloth, 245 pp, covers rubbed, spotted and stained, spine sunned, hinges loose, contents nice and clean, in worn, spine-darkened slipcase. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 900 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

KENT, Rockwell. [Broadside]: N by E.. Brewer & Warren, New York, 1930.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Broadside folded into octavo. Unfolded measurements: 11" x 16 1/2". Containing six black and white Rockwell Kent illustrations. A fine copy of this prospectus for the Literary Guild's Limited Edition published by Random House. Scarce.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell. N BY E [Signed]. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Qaurto, 245 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's decorated light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Housed in publisher's heavily worn slip case with a faded label bearing limitation number. Sunning to spine. Staining to rear board. Dye to top edge of textblock. Light penciling to endpapers. Age toning throughout textblock. Features Kent's illustrations scattered throughout along with 8 full page inserted prints made from Kent's original woodcuts. Signed flat by Kent on limitation page in rear. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1378367. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

kent, Rockwell. N By E. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First of feluxe edition limited to 900 numbered and signed copies.

Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.

KENT, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Illustrations by the author. 4to, light blue cloth decoratively stamped in silver (light stain at the top of the spine). New York: Random House, 1930. Limited First Edition. One of 900 copiers, signed by Kent.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Rockwell Kent. N By E. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$311.84 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Stories of Greenland, this is book number 605 of a Limited Printing totaling 900 of the First Edition of this book. Beautiful blue buckram cloth decorated with a silver stamped design. "Rockwell Kent" has also signed his name in the rear of the book on the limitation page. No slipcase.

Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell. N BY E - SIGNED. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Limited, #268/900 is signed on rear limitation page by the author/illustrator Rockwell Kent. Light blue, silver embossed pictorial boards clean and bright. Corners sharp, binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Slipcase in Good condition, separating at upper spine, otherwise intact.; 245 pages; Signed by Author

Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell. N BY E.. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: Limited to 900 copies SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT. 245p. Quarto. Illustrated by Kent with the drawings, headings, initials, and page numbers printed in gray. Blue cloth with overall spine and cover designs in silver. Owner's name in ink, else fine in VG slipcase Limited to 900 copies SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT.

Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell. N BY E. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$377.00 + shipping

Description: N BY E, Random House, 1930, first edition,some slight (foxing?) to covers, small smudge mark at the fore edge of the title page and copyright page, else a near fine copy in near vg slipcase with some fading to the spine and some modest splitting. Illustrated with over 200 Rockwell Kent drawings. 1/900 copies SIGNED by the author/artist.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Kent, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$468.75 + shipping

Description: First edition limited to 900 copies signed by the author, this being copy 321; 4to, pp. 245, [3]; illustrated throughout, with woodcuts by Kent, each printed in gray, a number full-page; spine ends a bit darkened, else fine in original blue buckram stamped in silver on spine and upper cover, in publisher's slipcase worn and split. The story of Kent's challenging expedition to Greenland.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Rockwell Kent. N by E. Random House,, New York:, 1930.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: Fine in decorated light blue cloth covered boards with a silver colored stamping of a compass rose on the front board and text and decorations stamped on the spine. This binding is absolutely unblemished! In its original plain blue dust jacket in very good condition with tanning to the spine area and a few closed tears all of which have been repaired with archival tape on the verso side of the jacket. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within the original, very good+ dark blue, paper covered slip case which shows minor wear at its opening and one chip from the paper covering of 3/4" by 1/2". As noted on the rear page of text this copy has been numbered 572 out of only 900 copies printed. It is also signed on that page by the author. With extensive wood block illustrations by the author. The paper employed in the text is a special watermarked paper by Pynson Printers and completed in the month of November, 1930. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.

Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

KENT, ROCKWELL. N by E. New York Random House 1930, 1930.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. One of an edition limited to 900 numbered copies signed by the author, Rockwell Kent. This copy is signed again as a presentation copy from Rockwell Kent, affectionately inscribed: ÒTo my friend, pilot Fred Black from his apprentice, Rockwell Kent, 1930.Ó Evidence of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown. Laid in is a 8Ó x 7Ó black & white photograph taken out of doors of Rockwell Kent, Fred Black, and another unidentified gentleman posed in front of a Stout Air Lines airplane, all of whom are wearing suits with Mr. Kent, alone, wearing a hat looking straight into the camera smiling, with his hands in his pockets. Illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Evidence of a removed bookplate on front pastedown, else very good plus with a small light pink discoloration to the lower left corner of the front cover with very light wear without dust jacket.

Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

[Kittredge, William]; Kent, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, signed limited issue. A stunning presentation copy, inscribed by Rockwell Kent to William Kittredge, the director of design and typography at The Lakeside Press. Kittredge commissioned Kent to design and illustrate the iconic three-volume aluminum slip-cased 1930 Lakeside Press edition of Moby Dick, which was hailed as a triumph of Machine Age book design. Kittredge's bookplate (rather well designed, of course) on front paste down, and his business card laid in, chipped at one corner. First edition. Number 560 of a limited 900 copies signed by Kent at rear. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with elaborate silver stamping to front cover and spine, in blue paper covered slip case with matching limitation number on title label on spine. Near Fine with light fading to spine and light general wear to slipcase.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition thus, with the iconic Rockwell Kent illustrations. Measures approximately 7.25" x 5.5" with 822 numbered pages. With its scarce original dust jacket. This book is in near fine condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the bottom edge of the textblock. Minor staining to the endsheets. The original dust jacket is in very good condition. Minor edgewear and staining to the panels. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N8-31).

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.