Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Rockwell Kent). Faust. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1941.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An impressive copy of this 1941 Rockwell Kent-illustrated edition, #46 OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY KENT AT THE LIMITATION. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($3.50), VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping at the spine crown and very light wear along the rear panel's outer hinge (with mild darkening and several small closed tears). Still though, handsome and very presentable. Thick quarto, dual text, with the original German on each verso and the newly-translated English (by C.F. Mac Intyre) on each facing recto. Rockwell Kent's incomparable woodcuts beautifully complementing Faust's dramatic text.

Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von & Kent, Rockwell. FAUST. New Directions, 1941.

Price: US$1072.52 + shipping

Description: FAUST, New Directions, 1941, first edition thus with new translation by C. F. McIntyre and illustrations by Rockwell Kent (including the front dust-wrapper panel), fine and bright in like dust-wrapper in vg slip-case with some wear to the edges. 1/100 copies specially bound and SIGNED by Kent.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.