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ROBINSON, SELMA; KENT, ROCKWELL. CITY CHILD. COLOPHON, NEW ROCHELLE, 1931.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BOOK STORE STICKER ON FRONT INNER COVER. PRINTED ON SHOGUN JAPANESE PAPER AT THE WALPOLE PRINTING OFFICE IN NEW ROCHELLE, AND BOUND BY PETER FRANCK, WITH THE LITHOGRAPH PULLED FROM THE STONE BY GEORGE MILLER. THIS COPY IS NUMBER 170 OUT OF 300 COPIES. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. DATE PUBLISHED: 1931 EDITION: LIMITED ED 64
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
ROBINSON, Selma. City Child: Poems. , 1931.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: ROBINSON, Selma. City Child: Poems. Original cloth-backed fancy boards, printed paper spine label, housed in publisher's cloth and printed boards slipcase. New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. First edition. One of 300 copies on Japanese paper printed at the Walpole Printing Office signed by the author. Lithographic frontis and illustrations by Rockwell Kent, who also signed the book by leaving his mark, a thumbprint within a red heart, on the colophon. Small bookplate, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Selma Robinson; illustrated by Rockwell Kent. City Child. The Colophon Ltd., 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. 64 pp. First limited edition (No. 252 of 300), printed exclusively for subscribers to The Colophon. Printed on Shogun paper at the Walpole Printing Office, SIGNED on the limitation page by the author and by illustrator Rockwell Kent with a red heart fingerprint stamp. Teal blue cloth spine with black and white art deco patterned paper over boards and a paper title label on the spine. In VG condition with lightly toned pages and protective plastic cover. Slipcase missing. Some page gatherings remain uncut at head. Includes the lovely bookplate of Smith College graduate Ellen Cox Ewing (Class of 1929) and her husband Thomas Stone, a Canadian diplomat. Ellen and Tommy were married in August 1930; she and their baby daughter died in childbirth the following June.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. ROBINSON, Selma.. City Child: Poems.. The Colophon Ltd., New York, 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 64 [1] pp. With Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Tall 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed decorated boards in slipcase. First edition; No. 74 of 300 copies, signed by Selma Robinson and by Rockwell Kent, using his mark. Old armorial bookplate; a few light stains to front endsheets; very slight use to boards in a lightly sunned slipcase.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child. Poems. The Colophon Ltd, New York, 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Copy 267 of 300 copies each signed by the author and with Kent's heart-shaped fingerprint marking. Plate and decorations by Rockwell Kent. 64 pp. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper at the Walpole Printing Office. 1 vols. 8vo. With Kent's fingerprint marking. Mill/back/3/3/ Original cloth-backed decorated boards. Some light darkening of spine, else fine. Bookplate. Original publisher's box Plate and decorations by Rockwell Kent. 64 pp. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper at the Walpole Printing Office. 1 vols. 8vo First edition. Copy 267 of 300 copies each signed by the author and with Kent's heart-shaped fingerprint marking.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma. City Child. The Colophon Ltd, 1931.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Signed by Robinson and by Rockwell Kent with his heart mark. Light foxing to endpapers. In a Very Good+ slipcase.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Robinson, Selma & Kent, Rockwell. CITY CHILD. Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: CITY CHILD, The Colophon Ltd. / Farrar & Rinehart, 1931, first edition, fine in like clear plastic dust-wrapper with a tiny chip to the head of the dust-wrapper spine and fine slip-case. 1/300 copies SIGNED by the author with a fingerprint of Rockwell Kent as issued.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. 64pp. Small octavo [22 cm] Teal blue cloth spine with black and white patterned paper over boards, and a printed paper title label on the spine. Top edge trimmed; other edges rough-trimmed. Printed on Shogun Japanese paper. In a matching thin card slipcase. The book is in very good condition, with only minor toning of the covers, and the slipcase is in very good condition, with age-toning and light rubbing at the corners. With decorations by Rockwell Kent. Number 84 in an edition of 300, printed exclusively for subscribers to The Colophon, A Book-Collector's Quarterly. Signed by Selma Robinson on the limitation page. Rockwell Kent has signed as well, by leaving his mark, a thumbprint within a red heart, on the limitation page, below Robinson's signature.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.