Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Edman, Irwin, ed. w. intro.. The Philosophy of Schpenhauer. Modern Library 52, 1928.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Grey cl. w. gilt lettering on black field, gilt lines and Modern Library colophon on cover and backstr. Blue staining on rear cover, apparently bleeding from erstwhile dj. Rockwell Kent endpapers. Xiv, 376pp. plus list of Modern Library pubs. Sl. damp rippling to some pp. at the end. VG.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xlvi, 155-228, xxiv (ads) pp., one tipped-in color plate, other illustrations in b&w and color; origina; paper wrappers, spine worn, rear cover tattered, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Merejkowski, Dmitri. The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci. Modern Library #138. Modern Library, 1928.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1928. Binding is Toledano style #7. "Transitional" balloon brown cloth of the early editions. Flex covers with gilt lettering. Rockwell Kent endpapers. Kent torch-bearer's image to front cover. Publisher's stain to top edges. Pale yellow dust jacket with grey lettering now in clear plastic BRODART protector. This particular jacket was in use 1929 and 1930. Original price to endflap. 637pp. GOOD in FAIR jacket. Textblock appears clean. Binding sound. Minor edgewear to jacket with chip to spine head.
Seller: Aldersgate Books Inc., Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. dustjacket has tears, chips, and toning, book is very good, previous owner name
Seller: West With The Night, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Untermeyer, Louis. Burning Bush.. Harcourt, Brace. NY. 1928., 1928.
Price: US$14.38 + shipping
Description: 109pp. 8vo Frontis drawing by Rockwell Kent. Maroon cloth. Spine sunned, spine lettering faded, text clean/tight: VG/no dj.
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. Modern Library, NY, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: dj w/lite wear, clipped price, in mylar; solid green c w/gilt spine titles; 345 pages+ads (#99 in series); Rockwell Kent end papers Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Untermeyer, Louis. Moses, A Novel,. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7.4 X 5.4 X 1.4 inches; 390 pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Description: (42)p. + Frontis and one illustration. Age stained. Book label of The Norman Remington Co., Baltimore on rear paste down. 16mo. 17 cm. Original yellow stiff paper boards, soiled. Front board decorated with illustration by Hogarth, Jr. (Rockwell Kent). First copyright 1921 by Vanity Fair. A famous parody of the works of Robert W. Service. POETRY BOX1 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
. Scribner's : July, 1928, Vol. LXXXIV, #1. Scribner, New York, 1928.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Good. Cover has Rockwell-Kent and inside is picture by Wyeth. Pages browned. Cover browned. Edges worn and torn. Stain on back of cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Brown, Sharon. Essays of Our Times. Scott, Foresman and Co., 1928.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Sturdy thicker, heavy book, green cloth spine and tips, green boards, green patch at spine top ver y fine, lightly browned inside covers and adjacent end papers, ink name and address at top of first front end paper, 422 lightly browned pages. Essays by William Beebe, Rockwell Kent, Hilaire Belloc, Randolph Bourne, Rupert Brooke, Stuart Chase, G.K. Chesterton, William McFee, Christopher Morley, Llewelyn Powys, J.B. Priestley, George Santayana, Virginia Woolf and others. DJ has light brown paper, green design at top front and spine top, tears and wear to most edges. Fair DJ/Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Untermeyer, Louis.. Burning Bush.. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Plus. No Dust Jacket. Inscription: "for the Osbornes, m. & f., rmembering several hectic mornings & even more orgiastic evenings across the anagram-table. Cordially, Jean & Louis Untermeyer. Bermuda 1931."
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
UNTERMEYER, Louis; Rockwell Kent. MOSES. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo; viii, 390 pages, variant tawny cloth; price-clipped dj was reinforced on the inside with old cellophane tape, head of spine chipped, torn This is Untermeyer's first novel, which raises many bold questions about Moses - and attempts to answer them. Another mystery is why the dust jacket states "With a frontispiece by ROCKWELL KENT." But, the last page reads, " The title page decoration and jacket drawn by Rockwell Kent". In fact, the Kent decoration on the title-page reappears on the top cover of the book, and the jacket panel shows the Egyptian princess rescuing a baby from the reeds.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Tomlinson, H. M (Henry Major). The Sea and the Jungle. Modern Library, NY, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; green Bluemnthal binding w/ w/gilt titles on black; Rockwell Kent end papers; (#99 in series, lists to 306 on dj reverse) 132 clean, unmarked pages Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Edward E. Paramore, Jr.. The Ballad of Yukon Jake.. Coward-McCann, Inc., NY,, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edward E. Paramore, Jr. Unpagenated (approx 40), 2 ills. by Rockwell Kent under his "nomme de plume" Hogarth, Jr., 16mo, hardcover, yellow boards with a black design and text, dust jacket. Good condition, some staining on the book cover dust jacket in tact. Inventory #18743-1
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
HUXLEY, Aldous. Point Counter Point. The Modern Library, New York, 1928.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo. Pp. 514 followed by eight pages of publisher's titles. With the Rockwell Kent endpapers. Bound in gray cloth with gilt lettering and design stamped in gilt on front board and spine. Toledano's binding 8. Top edge dyed green. Slight snag to top of rear hinge, short, closed tear to top corner of title page. Corners sharp. In the color dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear, notably at head of spine. Price of $1.65 intact on front flap. Second only to Brave New World, Huxley's novel features D. H. Lawrence in the character of Rampion. Presented here in a bright Mdoern Library copy with the stunning, but uncredited dust jacket design. According to Toledano, this edition was published between 1954 and 1959. TOLEDANO, 180.1.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Parramore, Edward E.,jr.. The Ballad of Yukon Jake. Coward - NcCann, Inc., New York, 1928.
Price: US$30.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: wonderful sendup of robert w service with wonderful help from artist and illustrator Rockwell Kent.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Paramore,Jr., Edward ( Kent, Rockwell ). THE BALLAD OF YUKON JAKE. Coward-McCann, 1928.
Price: US$34.80 + shipping
Description: THE BALLAD OF YUKON JAKE, Coward-McCann, 1928, first edition, near fine in vg dust-wrapper some light all around dust-soil, several short closed tears and a stain where (price sticker?) was removed on the rear dust-wrapper panel.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 17879 shelf. Slim trade paperback, lightly soiled tan covers, unlettered spine. Small break upper front joint, 1 small tear back cover, some penciled marks o the listings of 261 art works. With b/w repros of Albert Stewart, Maurice Fromkes, Raphael Sawyer, Agnes Tait, Lauren Ford, Nicolai Fechin, Rockwell Kent, et al 15 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
. Twenty Seventh International Exhibition of Paintings 1928. Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, 1928.
Price: US$38.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8Vo Softcover catalogue well illustrated. First prize to Derain. Very good + no foxing. Rockwell Kent cover.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth and decorated boards. Limited to 500 copies. Large area of staining to the front, a few smaller stains to the rear. Repaired tears to the lower spine edges. Corners are bumped with the boards showing. Complete but a good only copy. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: l, 307-380, xxviii (ads) pp., color plates; original paper wrappers, spine worn, covers darkened, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in original wrappers with light wear at the extremities.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in original wrappers with light wear at the extremities.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. The Precipice" (frontispiece) in Harper's (April, 1928). Harper's, New York, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in original wrappers with wear along the spine and a short closed tear.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in original wrappers with light wear and rubbing at the extremities.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Paramore Jr. Edward E.. The Ballad of Yukon Jake. Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Two owner's inscriptions, some light insect surfacing to spine, else near fine in good only dust jacket with heavy worming to extremities and creases, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$47.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: limited to 925 numbered copies; xxxiii, 336 pp., original red cloth (hardcover), Rockwell Kent designed Alfred Knopf book plate titled The Hovel to the front paste down, spine very slightly faded, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Paramore, Edward E. Jr.. BALLAD OF YUKON JAKE, THE. Coward McCann, 1928.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Not paginated Illus "The funniest and most famous of modern parodies--a little masterpiece." Originally appeared in "Vanity Fair" magazine. Wear to extremities.
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. 1928. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed with a small stain on the spine. 140 pages illustrated with a portrait frontispiece depicting Sean O'Casey. A very good, internally bright copy. First American edition. George R.M. Ewing, Jr.'s copy with his bookplate, designed for him and illustrated by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Woollcott, Alexander. GOING TO PIECES. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928., 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. 1928. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The spine is soiled and the edges of the front cover are faded. There is a small white stain on the front cover. x & 256 pages. Very good. First edition. George R.M. Ewing, Jr.'s copy signed by him on the front endpaper and with his bookplate, designed for him and illustrated by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Louis Untermeyer - (Rockwell Kent - illustrator). MOSES. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DEDICATION copy inscribed by the author "for (see dedication page) Jim and Bess because.because. Louis September 17th, 1928". Publishers light brown cloth, decoration and titles in black. A touch of foxing to cloth, VG in Rockwell Kent designed dust wrapper which has several small tears and chips.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 111 pages. The Literary Guild resetting of the Random House limited edition. Laid-in, the Literary Guild "Wings," paphlet describing this publication. Orig. blue cloth sunned at head. Very good in worn dust wrapper
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
[ROCKWELL KENT] PARAMORE, Edward E.. The Ballad of Yukon Jake. Coward-McCann, New York, 1928.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo (17cm). Pale yellow paper over boards in yellow jacket; unpaginated; 3 plates by "Hogarth, Jr.," a pseudonym of Rockwell Kent. Lightly rubbed at edges, with fading to spine: Very Good. Jacket faded and soiled at spine, with general mild dustiness, chips at head, short tear at lower front flap: around Very Good. [63697].
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
PARAMORE, Edward E., Jr. (Rockwell KENT). The Ballad of Yukon Jake. Coward- McCann, New York, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Hogarth, Jr. (Rockwell Kent). 16mo, pictorial tan boards. New York: Coward-McCann, First Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Homer. The Iliad of Homer. Cresset Press, London, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 228 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 201 of 750, book plate designed by Rockwell Kent for Emily Pierson front cover pastedown. Translated into English by Maurice Hewlett. Clean, very fresh copy. Orig. half vellum and tan buckram with gilt front cover medallion bright. Teg. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Anatole France. The Revolt of the Angels. The Modern Library, 1928.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, red flexible cloth binding with gilt titles, Rockwell Kent endpapers, 348pp. Early Modern Library edition following the first edition, in a variant red colored jacket (inside list of titles printed to reverse of jacket). Dust jacket shows loss to spine at lower edges, chips and nicks at edges, a closed tear to spine. Binding firm with minimal shelf wear, clean text. A handsome copy in mylar.
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
Edward E. Paramore, Jr.. The Ballad of Yukon Jake. Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, NY, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellow hard cover with black lettering /design to the front in a like yellow , Mylar protected, price clipped DJ yellow with black. Unpaginated. Illustrations by " Hogarth, Jr.", who was in fact, Rockwell Kent. This copy is VG in a NEAR FINE DJ. Exterior has a small, horizontal closed tear on the spine about an inch down from the top. Otherwise , exterior is clean, rich with only hints of edge wear.Inside is unmarked, crisp, and modestly toned. DJ is colorful with minimal wear at spine ends and tips. Lovely.
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Presumed first edition. Small 8vo. Two b/w illustrations by Rockwell Kent (i.e. Hogarth, Jr.). Dust jacket with Rockwell Kent illustration (price clipped; two tiny nicks). No signatures or bookplates. Very good-fine.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
UNTERMEYER, Louis. Moses. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Rockwell Kent dustjacket art. Novel of the prophet Moses in the land of Egypt. Near Fine in scarce Rockwell Kent designed dustjacket, spine ends with small chips, unfortunate nickel sized chip at mid-front spine edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Description: , 40 pages, illustrated title page, from a limited edition of 300 copies Limited Edition , spine sunned, slight bumping to top front corner, pages clean, edges untrimmed, very good condition , red cloth, gilt title to spine , 22 cm x 14.5 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
HUXLEY, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Modern Library, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hbk 12mo, 514pp+ list of Modern Library and Modern Library Giant titles at the rear, McKnight Kauffer dj edgeworn with a small closed tear at the front and small losses head and tail of spine, 271 titles listed on the verso, otherwise bright, clean and unclipped (95 cents) and now in protective sleeve, fine red cloth, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers, prev ownerÕs name discretely on front endpaper, otherwise a fine, clean and tight copy
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrations by Hogarth, Jr. (a Rockwell Kent pseudonym). 12mo. Faint sunning at the spine else fine in price-clipped near fine dust jacket with some light spotting on the rear panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: l6mo, 1st Ed of this parody o Service, Fine in Good heavily taped but complete D.J., with 2 b&w illus and cover by Kent under the name Hogarth Jr. (HC4)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Paramore, E.E. & Kent, Rockwell. THE BALLAD OF YUKON JAKE. Coward McCann, 1928.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: THE BALLAD OF YUKON JAKE, C-M, 1928, first edition, a bright near fine copy in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping. A parody of a Robert Service title with illustrations by Rockwell Kent.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNODJ,1928, 1st edition, 6.5 X 4 inches, Beige Tan decorated printed Paper Cover over Boards has light chipping spine & extremities, Internally minor fox O/W nice,tight Clean,NF/VG, NODJ
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
[Colophon, The.]. The annual of bookmaking. The Colophon, [New York], 1928.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: 4to, pp. [10], plus 25 unpaginated sections of varying length produced by 25 different printers; decorative title-p. designed by Rockwell Kent and a profusion of facsimiles and illustrations throughout; a very good, bright copy in original half light blue cloth stamped in black and silver, designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Among the bibliophilic enterprises represented are AIGA, Alfred A. Knopf, Riverside Press, Ward Ritchie Press, Press of the Woolly Whale, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., and University of Oklahoma Press.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Tall quarto, unpaginated. Hardcover without jacket in VG- condition. Bumping and shelf-wear. Light sunning to cloth-bound spine, partially obscuring text. Wear to corners of boards. Faint age-toning to pages and small spot of soiling to front free end page. Binding is sturdy. Book comprises fifty prints exhibited by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1927, including a print and introduction by Rockwell Kent. TJ CONSIGNMENT. Shelved in Arts (illustrations) section. Spine is blue/gray with blue text. 1237770. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
UNTERMEYER, Louis. Moses. Harcourt Brace and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Rockwell Kent dustjacket art. Novel of the prophet Moses in the land of Egypt. Near Fine in Very Good plus price-clipped dutjacket with shallow chipping to top spine end, wear to top edges, and minor surface wear to rear panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition No. 1444 of 1470 signed by Rockwell Kent. Faded leather like tan boards with gilt embossed decoration.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan cloth, lettered spine. Small 4to. No. 187 of five hundred bound copies. Collects nine numbers of Artlover with four pages of introduction and a supplement at the end for the book edition. Ownership signature of museum director and art historian Alexander Dorner on the front free endpaper. This copy has at the base of the front pastedown a large rectangular donation bookplate with the following text: "This book has been given to this library by J. B. Neumann with the hope that it will inspire readers to add to the public collection." The personal bookplate that Rockwell Kent designed for Neumann in 1928 furnishes the pictorial element of the plate, and the lettering is in monumental Roman letters in the style of Kent, but the plate cannot be attributed to him. Contents are in English. True to its name, Artlover displayed an amazing and unusually eclectic breadth of art work, including in this volume, besides then contemporary European and American artists such as Max Weber, Max Beckmann, and Georges Roualt, medieval woodcuts, African sculpture, New Mexico santos, British caricaturists, and naive artists. Contributions by Leo Stein on the sculpture of Annette Rosenshine and by Mabel Dodge Luhan on santos are bylined, the rest of the text presumably was written by Neumann himself. Neumann presciently emigrated to the United States in the early 1920s and put his gallery businesses in Germany into the hands of others; those galleries - Flechtheim and Nierendorf - were "aryanized" under the Nazis. Dorner himself, as an opponent of Nazism, emigrated in 1937 to the United States, and took a post at the Rhode Island School of Design; presumably the book came into his hands during his American years.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; in tan polished linen cloth, with embossed titling and decorations picked out in gilt, and double rules to the perimeter of the upper board in gilt as well; 111 page, followed by the colophon; the edition is limited to 1470 numbered copies, of which this is #1324, signed by Rockwell Kent on the colophon; the spine has darkened a bit.~~Bennett Cerf was the force behind the storied publishing which he founded in 1927 with the idea that they would "publish a few books . at random". Rockwell Kent happened to be present at the genesis of the firm. He quickly sketched out the Random House logo. And then . this book was the first book published the company the following year, with the logo printed in a pattern on the endpapers in green and in tan. Near Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Furst, Herbert. The Woodcut: An Annual, No II. Fleuron Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated frontispiece; 90 pp; bw illustrations throughout, including a three page fold out of woodcut wallpapers." "Of this Special Edition of The Woodcut: An Annual there have been printed on hand-made paper eighty copies, of which seventy-five are for sale. This is No. 16." Contents include: Woodcut wall-paper: past and future. / by Herbert Furst. -- The woodcut playing card. / by Cyril G.E. Bunt -- The tools of the wood-engraver. / by Douglas Percy Bliss -- Frans Masereel and his woodcuts / by Edmund Bucher -- A list of English, German and French books with woodcut illustrations published during 1927 -- Fifteen contemporary woodcuts: English: David Jones -- Hester Sainsbury -- Paul Nash -- William Kermode; French: Hermann Paul -- Lucien Boucher -- Sonia Lewitzka; Czechoslovak: Max Svabinsky -- Petr Dillinger; Hungarian: Kaesz; Polish: Wladislaw Skoczylas; Russian: Serguiej Kolesnikov; Norwegian: Olaf Willums; United States: Rockwell Kent -- Wharton Escherick. "In addition to the blocks in the text there is a three-page illustration in collotype of woodcut wall-papers opposite page 1." VG (light wear to covers but pages are very clean and clear.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
VOLTAIRE, Jean Francois Marie Arouet De. Candide -- (Signed, Ltd. Ed.). Random House, NY, 1928.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in tan cloth, with raised gilt letters and illustration to front panel and spine. Spine is a bit darkened. This is #1029 of 1470 signed copies. Signed by the illustrator, Rockwell Kent, on the limitation page. Decorated endsheets. 111 pg. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
The Woodcut. The Woodcut. The Fleuron, 1928.
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Volume II. Patterned paper boards by Enid Marx. Black cloth spine. Slight offsetting to endpapers, else very nice copy in little marked and faded dustwrapper. One of 750 copies. Printed at the Curwen Press. Woodcuts by David Jones, Paul Nash, Rockwell Kent and others.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition: 'Printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard at the Gregynog Press, near Newtown, in Montgomeryshire, and completed on the ninth day of October, MCMXXVIII. The text followed is that of the first edition. The wood-engravings are by Horace Walter Bray. The edition is limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is No.' 159 is penciled beside 'No.' This book is in very nice condition. You can see the blue and black designed covers in the photos. There are a few areas on the covers that puff up slightly. Also some whitish lines of slight color loss, similar to what can be seen in other sellers photos. Quarter bound in cloth with printed cloth covered boards. The gilt lettering is still bright on the spine. The cover edges look very good. The two top corners have speck-sized spots of rub-through. The two bottom corners have small, thin spots of rub-through. The middle and bottom page edges are deckled or rough-cut. They did a good job. The book is square and the spine straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The white inside covers and end papers are very clean. Here is something you're going to want to know about: all of the pages of the text, beginning with page 1 are uncut at the top edge. So, you can read page 1 and then page 2 and 3 not so much, and you can read page 4 and 5, but 6 and 7 only if you are desperate to. That's the way it is all the way through to the limitation page which follows the last page of the book, 119. Curiously, the three blank front end papers and the three blank rear end papers are cut, as is the half-title page and the title page. The very positive aspect of this is that the pages of the book, being unread, are in excellent condition, very clean throughout (I peeked at the hidden pages). Moreover, I'm not finding any conspicuous creasing, there are no markings, and no writing of any kind. There is only one attachment, the bookplate of a Calvin Neff. It is affixed to the front inside cover (see photo). In 'The Art of the Bookplate' by James P. Keenan the bookplate is referenced: 'Because there is no record indicating that Calvin Neff commissioned this ex libris directly from Rockwell Kent, we must assume that Neff simply adapted this illustration as his bookplate without the usual collaboration-- or permission-- of the artist. Kent's stark portrait of the obsessed Captain Ahab served as the frontispiece for the original Lakeside Press edition of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick. Published as a three-volume set with two hundred and eighty illustrations and packaged in an aluminum slipcase, the book sold for seventy dollars at the time and was extremely popular.' The bookplate is in top-notch shape.William Faulkner had a framed print of Kent’s Captain Ahab in his living room in Oxford, Mississippi. The Gregynog Press was 'founded in 1922 by the sisters and art patrons Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, guided by Thomas Jones, the press was named after their mansion Gregynog Hall. Jones remained its chairman throughout its existence. It rose to prominence in the pre-war era as among the more important private presses, publishing limited edition books, primarily on a Victoria platen printing press. Much of the printing work from 1927 to 1936 was carried out by the skilled printer Herbert John Hodgson, who had previously worked on the 1926 edition of the T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The American poet and printer Loyd Haberly was briefly the controller of the press. In 1954 after the death of Gwendoline Davies, Margaret donated most of the machinery used by Gregynog Press to the National Library of Wales. The press was reopened under the Welsh title Gwasg Gregynog by the University of Wales in 1978, and production resumed. Among the publications of the press are a series of pamphlets entitled 'Beirdd Gregynog / Gregynog Poets': the first of these was Euros Bowen's Yr Alarch, 1987.'
Seller: Rareeclectic, pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.
Voltaire. Candide. Random House, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound, no Dust Jacket. Published in a Limited Edition of 1470 copies, of which this is # 950. "Candide" by Voltaire, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent. SIGNED by Rockwell Kent on the limitation page. Book shows some wear to its boards. Binding is slightly cracked at the front hinge and at a couple spots throughout the text block, but it is holding well at all of them. Interior pages are clean with no writing or similar marks. The bookplate of a previous owner is affixed to the front free end page. RARE!
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
VOLTAIRE, Jean Francois Marie Arouet De and KENT, Rockwell. Candide. Random House, New York, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, original tan cloth with gilt lettering, 111 pp. Number 423 of a limited edition of 1470 copies signed by Rockwell Kent. In the original glassine wrapper. Very good with foxing to text block edges, sunning to edges and spine ends, bit of dust soiling to rear endpapers, toning, staining, chipping and tearing to glassine.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Voltaire. Candide. Random House, New York, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition of 1,470 copies, of which this is no. 785. Signed by the artist, Rockwell Kent on the limitations page. Very Good. Minor wear at spine-ends and mild toning to edges of boards and to spine. Binding is solid, contents in nice shape. Tipped in at the front is the ex libris label of Joseph Halle Schaffner, director of the clothing-manufacturing firm Hart, Schaffner, and Marx, and avid collector of books and manuscripts. 111 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No stated first edition. Believe to be 1928. Books listed inside back of dj 150. None listed at the back of the book. Endpapers, Bernhard torch bearers, 95 cent price. DJ fading blue with sideways author, title, publisher on spine with No. 3 twice. Per Toledano " there are few ML dust jackets with the script sideways. Lilfe of Michelangelo, Autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini are two other examples." 1 1/2 x 1/16" gouge up from bottom. 1/8" tear down fold, 1 1/2 " tear down front top left. Flexible boards. Rockwell Kent designed blue textured design boards (?) with gold small torch bearer. Spine gold, small torch bearer, spine double lines, top and bottom, no torch bearer. Moderate overall soil but looks very good. Internally prev. owners name back of ffep, interestingly dated December 25, 1928. Top edge faded,looks like it may have been red. Very rare! Pictures on request.
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London / New York: Peter Davies Limited / Harper & Brothers, 1928. Very Good condition. Light corner wear, with one small chip. This copy belonged to MERLE ARMITAGE. The front free endpaper is signed by him and the pastedown endpaper has his Rockwell Kent designed bookplate. Bruce Rogers believed Armitage was "the best of the modern book designers -- by far." Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Printed in England at The Curwen Press. Illustrated with 122 plates, mostly type specimens, many printed in colors. Some of the plates are integrated with the text; others appear in a section at the end. Complete with erratum slip, tipped-in. Laid-in is a March 10, 1929 Los Angeles Times article by Merle Armitage about a T. M. Cleland exhibition arranged by Jake Zeitlin. The rear endpaper has a tiny bookstore label from Zeitlin Books in Los Angeles. Bound in the original boards covered with a blue pattern on cream color paper, and a cream cloth spine stamped with blue lines and lettered in bright gold. Oversize Hardcover. 10" wide by 13.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. Signed by Merle Armitage. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. xix, 83pp.+ plates [180 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
John Addington Symonds. THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI. Modern Library, New York, 1928.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: stated first " First Modern LIbrary Edition 1928". 95 cent price, 150 titles listed back of dj and inside book on last 4 pages. Rockwell Kent designed green textured covers (?), torch bearer in gold as well as double lined title and publisher. No torch bearer on spine. DJ title, author, publisher printed sideways with book number listed twice and no torch bearer. Per Toledano " there are few ML dust jackets with the script sideways. LIfe of Michelangelo, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini are two other examples." DJ no torch bearer, orange with mod. soil, spine has 1" X 1/16" gouge, 3/4 " tear top edge. Top spine faded green? INternally Berhhard 4 torch bearers, prev. owners name on back side of the ffep dated December 25, 1928. Very rare! photos on request.
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arouet de. Candide. Random House, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1066/1470, signed by Kent. Raised lettering on cover with gilt accent. Spine is a bit tanned. A little foxing on page edges. Name on front pastedown. B/W Rockwell Kent illustrations throughout.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: King, Alexander. Number 97 of 960 numbered copies on Aurelian paper, designed by Robert S. Josephy for J.J. Little and Ives Company. Illustrated by Alexander King, frontsipiece signed by King. 1 vols. Black spine and decorated boards. Fine in slipcase. Bookplate of George R.M. Ewing, Jr. by Rockwell Kent Illustrated by Alexander King, frontsipiece signed by King. 1 vols Number 97 of 960 numbered copies on Aurelian paper, designed by Robert S. Josephy for J.J. Little and Ives Company.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet. Candide signed by rockwell kent. New York: Random House, 1928.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Illustrated and signed by Rockwell Kent. Limited edition #1353 of 1470 sold out copies. With description from bookseller Ursus Rare Books Ltd.Candide, satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism as espoused by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz that reveals a world of horrors and folly. Voltaire s Candide, published when the author was 65 and condemned by numerous clerical and political authorities across Europe, was influenced by various atrocities of the mid-18th century, most notably the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the outbreak of the horrific Seven Years War in the German states, and the unjust execution of the English Admiral John Byng.
Seller: Clays rare and antique books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Dinitri Merejkowski. THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. Modern Library, New York, 1928.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A new and Complete Translation by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Balloon covers, dust jacket, flexible boards. 150 listed books inside back of the dj and last 4 pps. of the book. THIS IS THE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY PICTORIAL DJ COVER BOOK. Does not contain statement of a first edition. It is not leatherette , it is a flexible orange patterned Rockwell Kent designed cover(?) with the small torch bearer in gold designed by Bernhard. Gold title and publisher on spine, no torch bearer. 95 cent price on inside of dj. Book lists of 150 started in 1928 into 1929. DJ spine printed sideways, no logo, number 138 printed twice. Toledano states with regards to this" There are few ML dust jackets with the script sideways, LIfe of Michaelangelo, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini are two other examples." In 1929 started Rockwell kent cover and end paper design. First illustrated ML cover( this being it), it had #4 spine, which is leatherette except per Toledano" Some spine #4 have been seen in balloon coth, they are probably the true first spine for regular ML published in late 1928 or early 1929. ( prev. owners name written inside back of ffep is dated December 25, 1928).This makes it a little confusing with attributes dating to 1929. DJ 1/4" chip out top of spine, worn bottom. Right light overall edgewear with light to mod. soil, mor so spine. Body of book, spine light crinkling at title, Top edge red, otherwise very clean and sound. Very rare! pictures on request.
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
FURST, Herbert [edited by]. The Woodcut Annual. The Fleuron Limited, 1928.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FURST, Herbert [edited by] [90] pp. The Fleuron Limited 1928 First Edition 11 3/8" x 8" Of this special edition there have been printed on hand-made paper eighty copies, of which seventy-five are for sale. This is No. 33 Fleuron Limited, London, 1928. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated frontispiece; 90 pp; bw illustrations throughout, including a three page fold out of woodcut wallpapers." "Of this Special Edition of The Woodcut: An Annual there have been printed on hand-made paper eighty copies, of which seventy-five are for sale. This is No. 33." Contents include: Woodcut wall-paper: past and future. / by Herbert Furst. -- The woodcut playing card. / by Cyril G.E. Bunt -- The tools of the wood-engraver. / by Douglas Percy Bliss -- Frans Masereel and his woodcuts / by Edmund Bucher -- A list of English, German and French books with woodcut illustrations published during 1927 -- Fifteen contemporary woodcuts: English: David Jones -- Hester Sainsbury -- Paul Nash -- William Kermode; French: Hermann Paul -- Lucien Boucher -- Sonia Lewitzka; Czechoslovak: Max Svabinsky -- Petr Dillinger; Hungarian: Kaesz; Polish: Wladislaw Skoczylas; Russian: Serguiej Kolesnikov; Norwegian: Olaf Willums; United States: Rockwell Kent -- Wharton Escherick. "In addition to the blocks in the text there is a three-page illustration in collotype of woodcut wall-papers opposite page 1."
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 111 Pp. #1159 Of 1450 Copies, The First Book Published By Random House, Illustrated Throughout By Rockwell Kent And Signed By Him On The Limitation Page. Binding And Gilt With Light Wear, Spine Gilt Mostly Worn Away But Title Very Clear, Some Browning Along Spine, Tiny Frays At Corners Of Spine, Contents Fine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Gag, Wanda. Millions Of Cats. Coward-McCann; NY; unnumbered pp.; DJ; F/VG; 1928/1928, 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: _____The correct first printing with the "Jersey City" imprint on the copyright page. _____ The jacket is the second state with Gag's biography referring to her having been born in "a desolate Minnesota village" and the Rockwell Kent endorsement on the rear panel. _____ Illustrated in black & white._____ . _____ The book has light shelf wear. _____ The jacket has a couple of internal tape reinforcements. _____ ._____
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: A beautiful edition of Voltaire's satirical and witty critique of the human condition, religion, politics, and philosophy. Illustrated and signed by Rockwell Kent. This is the first book that was published by Random House. The firm was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, with the name inspired by Cerf's remark that they would "publish a few books on the side at random." Rockwell Kent, the leading commercial artist in the U. S. at that time, happened to be in Cerf and Klopfer's office when they came up with the name, and in five minutes sketched their trademark logo (Cerf, "At Random," p. 65). Bound in coarse ivory cloth with gilt embossed titles, rules, and illustration on upper board, title and ornaments on spine, decorative endpapers. Binding shows some mild age toning, gilt dulled on spine, some rubbing to gilt illustration on upper board. Binding sound. An attractive copy, very good condition overall. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 111 pages
Seller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arouet De. Candide. Random House, New York, 1928.
Price: US$889.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original beige cloth in folding red boards that fit in a matching elegant red slipcase that is a third leather and the rest paper-covered boards. First Edition thus and the first book published by Random House. No. 958 of 1470 copies signed by illustrator Rockwell Kent. Laid in is a signed Rockwell Kent print that was not connected to this book publication. The print is a wood engraving, “Girl on a Cliff,” which was one of 1750 copies issued from the press in 1930. Two white spots on the bottom edge of the slipcase, Very Good.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
WANDA GAG. MILLIONS OF CATS. COWARD-MCCANN, 1928.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition, 2nd issue (without the 'Jersey City Printing Co.' slug on copyright page. The jacket is the second state with Gag's biography referring to her having been born in "a desolate Minnesota village" and the Rockwell Kent endorsement on the rear panel. A lovely collectible copy.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 111 pages. 29 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 527 of 1470 copies signed by Rockwell Kent. It is also the first book with the Random House imprint. Printed on all rag French paper and 95 coloured in the studios of the artist. Hand set in type designed by Lucien Bernhard and with paragraph designs by Kent. Some tape residue on inside back covers. Book plate inside front cover pastedown. Orig. illustrated and lettered beige cloth. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
VOLTAIRE & KENT, Rockwell. Candide. Random House, New York, 1928.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Extensively illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent, with each drawing hand-colored. 112 pages. Short slim 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/2 brown morocco and beige cloth boards. New York: Random House, 1928. A fine copy of the special limited printing with color images, printed by Elmer Adler's Pynston Printers. From a total of 1470 copies signed by Rockwell Kent, this is one of only 95 hand-coloured in the studio of the artist [This copy is un-numbered]. A splendid production, issued to celebrate the inauguration of Bennett Cerf's new company, Random House. The logo for Random House, used to this day, comes from the final illustration in the book -- an idealized country home filled with the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Voltaire; illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Candide. Random House, New York, 1928.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Spectacular hand-colored edition of Candide (1 of 95), issued to celebrate the inauguration of Bennett Cerf's new company, Random House. The logo for Random House, used to this day, comes from the final illustration in the book, by Rockwell Kent, depicting an idealized country home filled with the ideas of the Enlightenment. No slipcase. A beautiful book. 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/2 tan morocco over the original patterned cloth (which is very fresh). New York: Random House, 1928. A near fine copy with just a couple of minor spots in the margins, no bumps or tears. See photos.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.