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KENT, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated in black and white. 393 pages. Thick 8vo, cream cloth with pictorial emblem on cover (spine darkened; some dampstaining at bottom page margins). New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1940). First edition. Very good(-).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Text clean, binding tight. No writing or bookplates. Tanning to spine, cover, and endpapers. Proceeds from this sale go to benefit the Literacy Council of Alaska. Photos on request.
Seller: Forget-Me-Not Books, Fairbanks, AK, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in Very Good-plus condition, 8vo, pages: xi,[xii-xiv],393. Cream-colored cloth with titles, borders, and decoration in black, brown topstain, deckled fore-edge, 10 full-page drawings by Kent, plus illustrations in text and head- pieces. First edition. Binding is tight, tips and spine ends only very lightly worn, tanning to cloth especially spine, end-papers tanned. Very nice copy but for darkened spine; lacking dust jacket. Bookseller accession no.: GP362. Adirondacks, memoir
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers are soiled and there is a small red stain on the back cover. There is a very neat signature of Rockwell Kent on the half-title page -- it looks real but could be a printed signature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 393 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. THIS IS MY OWN. , 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: (Kent, Rockwell)illus. THIS IS MY OWN by Rockwell Kent. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY, 1940 (1st edition stated). 4to., cloth, DJ, 393pp., 105 illustrations by Kent. Fine, DJ has some small nicks, and is a bit faded at spine.
Seller: Edward T. Pollack, ABAA, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Gently bumped corners and darkened edges Good. Edges darkened and chipped with small tears and losses. Darkened spine makes title difficult to read. In plastic protector Cream cloth with blue lettering and design
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. THIS IS MY OWN. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in, Tan cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers extremely clean and fresh. Minimal wear to corners and spine ends. BInding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, a bit toned, spine more so, chips to spine ends. RK. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. This Is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An almost fine copy with just the slightest wear to top of spine. The book captures Rockwell Kent's idealistic vision of farm life. At one time, this book was used against Kent as an indication of his Communist sympathies. The front of the dust jacket is included, gratis. beautiful
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$56.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Orig. tan cloth. xv, 393 pp. B&W drawings by the author in text. Spine tilted, foxing to cloth. Staining to top edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, age toned, sunned to spine, several short tears with tape repairs to reverse.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan,& Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 393pp.; HB pale beige w/dk.blue; rubbed,stained,&soiled w/sun on spine&edges; wear on edges&corners; tanned endpapers w/clean,tight pgs. Illustrated reflections on America. signed by Kent.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Light browning to spine and tips, overall near fine in very good, edge worn and toned dust jacket with some shallow chipping to spine tips, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This Is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Rockwell Kent at half title. Beige cloth with navy titling and decoration, a little grubby with light edgewear and toned spine. Spine square. Binding sound. Lacking the original jacket; this copy is protected in a custom non-original dust wrapper of marbled paper. Small early bookseller's ticket adhered to bottom edge of front paste down. Interior else clean, endsheets toned, text bright and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with drawings by the author.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket worn and chipped.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. THIS IS MY OWN. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1940 Duell, Sloan & Pearce first edition in price intact jacket. Tight and unmarked faint fade to spine of jacket. Light tone to endpapers. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. THIS IS MY OWN. Duell, Sloan and Pearce ( 1940 ), New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, xi, 393 pages, pictorial white cloth; Powerful autobiography. An excellently printed and bound volume. Illustrated with a cornucopia of Kent's illustrations, on nearly every other page. Not an account of his whole life, but substantially devoted to his fight, with his neighbors, with the railroad that threatened his rural way of life in the Adirondacks. In addition to wrigint and illustrationg this book, Mr. Kent deisgned is dust jacket, binding, tittle-page, type page, and format. Note: if you do not buy this book, I will not mind keeping it ( I have had it twice before, but not this nice a copy). If you do buy it, you will have the pleasures of enjoying it.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. THIS IS MY OWN. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [xv], 393p. Illustrated by Kent in the text and with ten full-page plates. Tan cloth with titles and designs in blue. A fine and bright copy with none of the usual spine cloth discoloration
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This Is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Cream colored cloth, black ruling and lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 393 pp., top edge of text block stained blue. Lacking ffep, offsetting from newspaper clipping pp. 238-39. No markings in book, binding tight. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket that shows minor chipping, spine lightly sunned. Book condition VG in VG- DJ. Edition: First Edition. Binding: Hardback
Seller: Parker's Rare Books, Ontario, WI, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. This Is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Gift inscription, age-toning to the endpapers, some offsetting to a few pages from bookmarks, and a few light and easily, erasable pencil notes, a very good copy in about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with overall age-toning, and some shallow chipping at the extremities.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 393 pp. With 105 illustrations by the author. D.j. clipped on all 4 corners, but price still intact; upper corner slightly worn at tip, small scratch upper back panel, else an excellent copy in fine condition.
Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada
Rockwell Kent. This is My Own. Duell Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, Signed by the Author on the ffep, A little sunned, but a Fine Copy
Seller: Uncommon Books - The Gomez Collection, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by the author on the ffep. Short tear to spine head, else fine in very good, edge worn and spine-toned dust jacket, with some shallow chipping to spine tips, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell.. This Is My Own.. Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Presumed First Printing, with no statement of edition on the copyright page. A Fine copy in off-white buckram stamped in dark Prussian blue, in a Very Good or better red and blue dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with some fading to spine and a few tiny nicks to extremities. 393pp. fully illustrated with a hundred drawings by the Author, many full page. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q11091
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in finely woven beige linen boards and stamped in black on the front boards and on the spine. Printed on heavy stock; very clean and tight throughout. Signed "Rockwell Kent" on the half-title page. With a discrete name in ink written in tiny letters at the top of the front endpaper. In a worn, good only dust jacket with tape applied to the top and the bottom of the spine ends, and at one corner; there is faint offsetting from the tape to the commensurare sections of the cloth as well. A handsome, serviceable copy of Rockwell Kent's autobiography, signed. Rockwell Kent(1882 1971) was an American painter,printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Rockwell Kent was born inTarrytown, New York. Kent was ofEnglish descent.[2][3]He lived much of his early life in and around New York City, where he attended theHorace Mann School. In his mid-40s he moved to anAdirondackfarmstead that he calledAsgaardwhere he lived and painted until his death. Kent studied with several influential painters and theorists of his day. He studied composition and design withArthur Wesley Dowat the Art Students League in the fall of 1900, and he studied painting withWilliam Merritt Chaseeach of the three summers between 1900 and 1902 at theShinnecock Hills Summer School of Art, after which he entered in the fall of 1902Robert Henri's class at theNew York School of Art, which Chase had founded. During the summer of 1903 inDublin, New Hampshire, Kent was apprenticed to painter and naturalistAbbott Handerson Thayer. An undergraduate background in architecture atColumbia Universityprepared Kent for occasional work in the 1900s and 1910s as an architectural renderer and carpenter. At the Art Students League he would meet and befriend the artistsWilhelmina Weber FurlongandThomas Furlong.[4][5] Kent's early paintings ofMount MonadnockandNew Hampshirewere first shown at theSociety of American Artistsin New York in 1904, whenDublin Pondwas purchased bySmith College. In 1905 Kent ventured toMonhegan Island, Maine, and found its rugged and primordial beauty a source of inspiration for the next five years. His first series of paintings of Monhegan were shown to wide critical acclaim in 1907 at Clausen Galleries in New York. These works form the foundation of his lasting reputation as an early Americanmodernist, and can be seen in museums across the country, including theMetropolitan Museum of Art,Seattle Art Museum,New Britain Museum of American Art, and theFine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Among those critics lauding Kent was James Huneker of theSun, who praised Kent's athletic brushwork and daring color dissonances.[6](It was Huneker who deemed the paintings ofThe Eightas "decidedly reactionary".)[7]In 1910, Kent helped organize the Exhibition of Independent Artists, and in 1911 together with Arthur B. Davies he organized An Independent Exhibition of the Paintings and Drawings of Twelve Men, referred to as "The Twelve" and "Kent's Tent". PaintersMarsden Hartley,John Marin, andMax Weber(but not John Sloan, Robert Henri, or George Bellows) participated in the 1911 exhibition. Atranscendentalistandmysticin the tradition ofThoreauandEmerson, whose works he read, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness.(Wikipedia) First Edition with "First Edition" slug on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This Is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940, first edition stated (pg. 22 reads " Davis Head Inn.", same illustration present on pages 145 and 159), 393 pages, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, Rockwell Kent, on half-title, profusely illustrated in b&w with drawings by Kent - 10 full-page, Ex-Private-Library with only 1 small mark, 6.5 "x 9.25", hardcover, tan cloth with black stamped titles and decorations, top page edges tinted black - now faded, very mild bumping to spine ends, good dust jacket with light wear and chipping to corners and spine ends as well as a very few tiny closed tears on edges, 1 short closed split in base of hinge between rear jacket panel and flap, jacket spine faded with 1" piece missing from bottom end, jacket panels mildly scuffed and soiled with one very small piece chipped from front panel top edge, dust jacket protected in new archival plastic cover, small neat library stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and tight, book very good+ (VG+/G) 3646 [Hss0609EHW]
Seller: Librarium, East Chatham, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second(?) printing [no edition statement on copyright page]; presumed second printing, with no printing statement on copyright page [page 22 states: ". Deer's Head Inn." (first printing states ". Davis Head Inn.") and with different vignette illustration present on pages 145 and 159 (first printing has same vignette illustration on pages 145 and 159)]. Illus. by author. 393pp. Thick 8vo. SIGNED. Signed by Rockwell Kent on the front flyleaf. Spine is evenly tanned, with few spots of light foxing on front cover (binding and pictorial front cover is otherwise bright), else a near fine copy (endpapers are slightly tanned, text and illustrations are fresh and clean) Illus. by author. 393pp. Thick 8vo First edition, second(?) printing [no edition statement on copyright page]; presumed second printing, with no printing statement on copyright page [page 22 states: ". Deer's Head Inn." (first printing states ". Davis Head Inn.") and with different vignette illustration present on pages 145 and 159 (first printing has same vignette illustration on pages 145 and 159)].
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. THIS IS MY OWN. Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1940), New York, NY, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. G/G. (1940). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. Sm 4to., 393 pp., Dj rubbed, edges frayed, toning, cover bumped, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. This Is My Own. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first edition. Cream buckram with black piictorial design on cover and black lettering on cover and spine. With 10 full plate illustrations and over 100 text illustrations by the author. Same picture on pages 145 and 159. Near fine condition with page toning and slight discoloration to spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good condition with light chipping along edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
[Illustrated Book] Kent, Rockwell.. This is My Own.. Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy with three discreet spots to the bottom edge of the rear board in Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with a small narrow stain to the lower rear panel. Upon his return to America from the far regions of the world and seeking a place among the "woods and templed hill" where he could live a full and vigorous and free life, Kent discovered a beautiful spot in the Adirondacks. In This is My Own Rockwell Kent, the farmer-artist, has written not only a narrative of a rural way of life .but a declaration of faith. This autobiographical treatise is complemented with 10 full plate illustrations and over 100 text illustrations by the author.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.