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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10 x 13 in. Limited edition of 750 copies, this is no. 246, signed on the limitation page by Rockwell Kent. Blue cloth boards with ivory paper spine labels. Bevelled edges, gilt upper text edge. Frontis plates in both volumes, full-pg plates throughout. Condition is VERY GOOD ; lacks the original and usually damaged slipcase. Covers have wear and rubbing, corners but not spine ends bumped, minimal shelf wear. Vol. 2 has some pale water discoloration to the front board, also to the front endpapers and half title pg, next pg, and then mildly to the margins only of the frontis. The discoloration to the board is a paler blue, rather than dark areas. The spines of both volumes are the darker, original blue. Spine labels have some edge wear and fading. Both bindings tight. Vol. 2 has a mild central ripple to the pages, and some mild foxing to the margins of the plates, also a water spot on the lower corner on about half the pgs (see photo). Text clean and unmarked in both. Extra shipping may apply. Shakespeare/Kent. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$484.35 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 194 of 750 copies signed by the artist. The publishers also issued a single volume trade edition of this work. Kent's full-page illustrations have, "like the Moby Dick images, shaped at least two generations' understanding of the characters portrayed" (Stanley, p. 48). In his autobiography, Rockwell Kent noted Shakespeare as his "favourite author", before noting "a few others" too (Kent, p. 599). Rockwell Kent, It's Me O Lord, 1955; Eliot H. Stanley, Rediscovering Rockwell Kent, 1997. Two volumes, quarto. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt on vellum labels, front covers with designs in blind, top edges gilt. With 2 colour frontispieces, 38 full-page plates, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Kent. Some light abrasions to binding, some wear to vellum labels, minor browning to endpapers, lacking slipcase: a very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$987.80 + shipping
Description: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition thus, 2 volumes, fine in original glassine dust-wrappers and vg+ slip-case. 1/750 copies SIGNED by the artist.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Cambridge Edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty numbered copies, signed by the illustrator Rockwell Kent. Bound in publisher's original full blue cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut. This set was originally issued in a single slipcase for both volumes and was extremely heavy. We had two new blue cloth slipcases lined with paper made to make it more manageable. The original vellum labels stamped in gilt were difficult to read from any distance so we had substituted two new red leather labels stamped in gilt which matched some of the coloring on the title page.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two oversize three-quarter blue leather hardcovers with gilt lettering and decorations to spine; five raised bands; blue cloth over boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; limiited edition 303/750; signed by Rockwell Kent at the beginning of volume one. Very good minus condition: spines toned to tan; the fading effects the leather on the boards too; a little dark staining to spine tails; edge wear, including some mouse nibbling; straight; the paper over the hinges is cracked but the hinges are holding well; pages excellent. Will require extra for shipping. Not available for international shipping. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.