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Kent, Rockwell. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland (2 vols). The Baxter Society., Portland., 1990.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a fine slipcase. 25.5x16 cm. Quarter white cloth over gray boards and gray paperbound companion, gilt cover titles. Facsimile reproduction of 1st edition limited to 500 copies, this copy unnumbered.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland. The Baxter Society, Portland, Maine, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Boxed set - 2 books, the facsimile in hardcover and a softcover companion volume. Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies - this being 283 of 500. The facsimile volume is a hardcover with white cloth spine and gray paper covered boards. Quality paper and quality printing. The softcover companion volume is 40 pages and is edited by Eliot H. Stanley. The box is gray paper covered boards with paper title label - very good condition. A lovely, finely produced facsimile of Kent's first written and illustrated book.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's cloth backed boards, and publisher's gilt-lettered wrappers, in slipcase as issued. Facsimile edition; one of 500 copies, with companion booklet. Fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland.. The Baxter Society, NY., 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Written November 6th. 1917, 2 Vols., unpaginated (15), title page vignette, 6 illustrations, octavo (8vo), cloth covered spine over boards with gold stamped title, 1st facsimile edition, limited to 500 numbered copies; companion volume: 35 pages, 11 illustrations (5 color), soft cover both in one slipcase. Very good condition, ever so minor wear on slipcase both volumes perfect. #21577-1
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland. Baxter Society, Portland, 1990.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thin 8vo, cloth backed boards. Portland: Baxter Society, 1990. Limited Edition. Facsimile of a private calligraphic book presented by Kent to Hildegarde HIrsch, in 1917. Housed in a board slipcase with a companion volume, paper bound, with color illustrations, edited by Elioit Stanley. Second book of The Baxter Society, published in a one time facsimile edition of 500 numbered copies. Fine, except for light foxing on the end-leaves.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland. The Baxter Society, Portland, ME, 1990.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes, one hardcover and one softcover. Number 234 from an edition of only 500 copies. Preface by Sally Kent Gorton and with an essay by Eliot Stanley. A facsimile edition of a book that was done by Kent for Hildegard Hirsch. A very fine copy in fine slipcase. An attractive production printed at the Stinehour Press. Includes the original prospectus.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Facsimile of the previously unpublished original 1917, calligraphic edition of Rockwell Kent's book, the only copy of which he gave to Hildegarde Hirsch. It is issued with with a companion volume in wrappers edited by Eliot H. Stanley. This copy is number 54 of one hundred copies signed by Sally Kent Gorton, Kent's wife. Both volumes are in fine condition and housed in a fine slipcase.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland. The Baxter Society, Portland, 1990.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Cloth-backed boards with accompanying volume in wrappers, both volumes fine in original board slipcase. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 135. The sole authorized facsimile edition of the earliest book known to have been entirely written and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Companion booklet includes a Preface by Sally Kent Gordon. The second publication of the Baxter Society.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover/Stiff Wraps. The Baxter Society's second book. A facsimile reproduction of this early fantasy by Kent, slipcased with a companion book including preface by Sally Kent Groton and Notes on The Jewel by Eliot Stanley. Printed by the Stinehour Press and The Shagbark Press and hand bound by Judi W. Conant. A very handsome copy of this wonderful edition. Both volumes tight, bright and unmarred. Small bump in upper corner of slipcase, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, white cloth spine, blue paper boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. np. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Limited Edition, this being number 82 of 100 Benefactor Copies [of a complete run of 500]. Signed by Sally Kent Groton.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.