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Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward From The Strait Of Magellan. G P Putnam's Sons, 1924.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Map on endpapers. Illustrations by the author. Book has no dust jacket. Bound in yellow cloth. General wear: top & bottom of spine frayed, corners bumped, covers lightly soiled and a few small spots. Binding solid.
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: illustrations, map on endpapers. Original illustrated yellow cloth. 28cm. Cover sound but soiled and rather worn. No Jacket.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. Voyaging. G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Southward From The Strait Of Magellan. Book is gold fabric board with illustration on cover. Spine is straight and tight. Pages are tight, no tears/folds/writing.End papers are maps.Small book store sticker front inside near spine. Cover of book has the wear. Cover has wear marks to the fiber on back. Edges have wear, Corners are straight with very slight fray.Front cover has ring marks and random small spots near top. Inside book is a fine, cover is good.
Seller: Six Maples Books, Martinsburg, WV, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Kent, Rockwell. Fourth printing. With illustrations by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Kent's delightful account of his travels at the southernmost tip of South America, illustrated with evocative illustrations, in a pleasing binding. Original blue buckram. Spine and edges browned, else Very Good With illustrations by the author. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Kent Rockwell. Voyaging Southward From the Strait of Magellan. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Mild discoloration to yellow cloth boards, corners lightly bumped, mild edgewear to cloth. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Inventory No: 040017.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Bookplate, else near fine in good, chipped, worn and lightly soiled, price-clipped dust jacket, in mylar cover. Full blue cloth, gilt title, in dust jacket
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in Very Good condition in a good dust jacket, 4to, pages: xv,184,[1]. 2nd printing (Dec 1924). Blue cloth with titles and decoration in gold, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, map end-papers, numerous illustrations by Kent. Light wear, some evidence of damp-stain at spine heel, not noticeable in contents. Dust jacked chipped and edge-worn with some evidence of damp on spine and some loss. Bookseller accession no.: 19124. An account of Kent's unsuccessful attempt to sail around Cape Horn in a converted lifeboat; much of this adventure was over land, not sea.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Kent,Rockwell. Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1924.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fully illus. Several coarsely opened pages, many uncut inside of front cover stained
Seller: Weyhe Art Books, Mount Desert, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, hardcover. 184 pages. Good, some soiling & wear on covers, front & rear hinges appear to have been (neatly) repaired, inner binding soft / pulling a bit in places so that pages lie close to flat in at least one spot; in a worn dust jacket with chips & soiling & wear, also browned on the spine so that any lettering there is not visible, but will look decent in our fresh mylar protector. (Note: dust jacket is unpriced.) Scarce in any jacket! Top page edges gilt. With numerous illustrations by Kent Additional photo(s) available upon request. Please note that expedited domestic mail and international mail will likely run extra on this heavy item.
Seller: Silicon Valley Fine Books, Sunnyvale, CA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 184pp.; HB pale yellow w/blk.-pic.cover; some rub w/lt.soil; wear on edges&corners; bookplate; clean,tight pgs. " .the steamer bore us southward through six weeks and seven thousand miles, through the mid-summer of the equator to the July winter of the Strait of Magellan." illus.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; 184 pages; G-; Bound in tan cloth with black lettering and illustration; Boards shaken, rubbing to corners and edges, fraying along spine edges, toning to both covers, brown stain on front cover; Textblock has split hinges between endpapers and pastedowns, age toning to pages, light foxing to some pages, sticker on rear pastedown; RWO. 1358653. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 184 pages. In Good Condition. Fully bound in tan cloth with black lettering and illustration. Minor fraying to head and tail of spine edges. Front gutter loose, rubbing to corners and edges of boards. Toning and soiling to both covers, light staining on front cover. Age toning to pages, light soiling to some pages. Shelved in case 10. 1375888. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 184 pages. Text and striking black and white illustrations. A tight close to near fine copy with some bumping to the bottom rear corner and a small vintage bookstore sticker to the front pastedown in a very good dust jacket that has chipping to the top of the spine that affects the lettering and with a number of other small chips, tears and minor wear. Despite the flaws a nice copy of this terrific book.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1924.
Price: US$241.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very smart first edition, second impression copy of this illustrated account of a voyage by Rockwell Kent. The first edition, second impression of this fascinating work by Rockwell Kent. A unique and engaging account of the author's travels along the coasts of Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn on a small sailing boat, brought to life by beautiful illustrations. Rockwell Kent was an American painter and illustrator, a writer, as well as a sailor, adventurer, and voyager.From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice Back. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey for many years. He spent eight winters in the Antarctic and is a descendent of Captain George Back. In addition, he served as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations. His library collection was built over decades and highlights his love of polar exploration.Thoroughly illustrated. In the original publisher's blue cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to front board and spine. Externally smart with slight shelfwear, minor rubbing to top joint. Slight bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Gilt to front board is slightly rubbed. Kenn Back's bookplate to recto front free endpaper. Internally, binding is slightly loose to front and rear board, otherwise firm throughout. Pages are bright and clean. Complete with frontispiece and sixty nine illustrations. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$765.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Xv, 184 Pp. #32 Of A Limited Edition Of 110 Copies Of Which 100 Were For Sale. Faux Vellum Spine, Blue Boards, Spine An Cover Labels Printed In Blue, Blue And White Illustrated Endpapers (The Trade Edition Had Map Endpapers.) First Edition, Signed By Kent On Limitation Page And Again In The Two Color Woodcut Bound Before The Half Title, And With The Extra Illustration, Not Present In The Trade Edition, Placed After The Introduction. Light Wear Showing With Tiny Frays At Corners. Hinges Tight. Faint Damp Stain In Small Area At Top Of Spine Panel Affecting Upper 2/3 Of The Spine Label.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce limited "Author's Autograph Edition" of 110 numbered and signed copies with an original signed woodcut, this being #6 and a presentation copy from Kent to his "dear friend" and publisher, George Putnam, expressing his "gratitude - too often not expressed - that I must forever feel for him - and do" and signed again, "Affectionately, / Rockwell"; George Palmer Putnam, an author & explorer, was later the discoverer of an at-the-time unknown aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, whom he sponsored on her first transatlantic flight & later married; he was also, of course, the then-current head of the longtime Putnam publishing family; printed at the Knickerbocker Press on heavy-stock paper, rough-cut to the bottom and foredges, there is a full-page woodcut unique to this edition - in addition to the signed one - appearing after the Introduction, and the illustrated endpapers are not reproduced in subsequent editions (a map of Tierra del Fuego appears instead); a Very Good copy in faux-vellum-backed blue papered boards with panel & spine title labels, minor shelf & edge wear to the boards with a little quiet soiling (primarily along spine) and a small half-inch circular stain mid-spine, light bump to spine top/rear panel, 2 tiny pinholes along front gutter, very slight gap between signatures at pages 64-5, else hinges & binding tight, pages unmarked & an overall excellent example of this beautifully produced and printed Rockwell Kent classic, with truly one-of-a-kind associations; 4to; xvi + 184pp illus + signed bound-in woodcut.
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1924.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beautiful, gift quality copy; Rockwell Kent's signature and inscription dated 1928 on second ffep; llustrated throughout; Mapped end papers, top edge gilt; Aged-toned, else textblock is very clean and very tight; The illustrated cloth binding is bumped at head and foot of spine and board corners, lightly edge worn; Unclipped dust jacket, creased and crunched at the corners, with overall light edge wear at the spine extremities and folds; 184pp. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.