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Rockwell Kent. N By E 1ST Edition Limited Signed. RANDOM HOUSE, 1930.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy in good dj, with chipping creasing and tearing at head and heel and corners. Now in mylar. This edition is reprinted by Quinn & Boden Company at Rahwey, NJ for Harcourt Brace & Co. Signed by Rockwell Kent on front end paper. Signature looks as though someone may have tried to erase it. Still clear, except for the K. A great bargain.
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971.. N BY E. [North by East.]. New York: Literary Guild, 1930., 1930.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint edition WITH TIPPED-IN TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ROCKWELL KENT. xii, 281, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Off-white cloth with light aquamarine lettering/decoration to front board and spine but with latter's slightly faded; some toning and soiling to cloth with rear board having light staining at top right. Muted brown top edge. Some toning to endpapers with faint toning at margins of interior leaves; early leaves have mild bumping/creasing at bottom fore-edge corners with a few nicks at bottom edges. Binding is firm. Tipped-in at front free endpaper is a folded typed response letter on Rockwell Kent's personal stationery (with his logo at top of page and Au Sable Forks, NY at bottom) dated December 11, 1930 thanking a Delaware, Ohio resident for her correspondence of a few days prior with Kent's cursive black ink signature in his usual compact handwriting. A very good- copy. Random House published a limited edition the same year with the trade edition released by Brewer & Warren.
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell.. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 245 [1] pp. Illustrated. Folio, publisher's decorated cloth in slipcase. First edition.; No. 38 of 900 copies, signed by Rockwell Kent. Slight sunning to the spine; otherwise a fine copy in a lightly rubbed and worn slipcase. The printed paper label on the slipcase is either heavily restored or a facsimile.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. N by E. Random House, 1930.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rockwell Kent, illustrator and artist signed limited edition of N by E published in 1930 by Random House. This is # 283 of a limited signed edition of 990, signed by Kent on the limitation page in the back of the book. There is some separation of the back end paper from the cover. The binding while intact is loose and there is some sunning to the cover. There is some soiling or smudging of ink other than the signatures ink around the signature. Priced accordingly.
Seller: Custodians of History, Inc., Plymouth, MA, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. N By E 1ST Edition Limited Signed. RANDOM HOUSE January 1930, 1930.
Price: US$142.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #371 of 900 signed by Rockwell Kent. used hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket and slip case. cloth is sunned at the spine and edges with some snags in the cloth. some soiling to the page edges and some white staining (paint?) on rear cover. corners slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws save for the lack of the original jacket and case.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Quarto. 245pp. Bookplate of a noted artist, spine a bit toned, cloth frayed a bit on the spine ends, closed tears in mid-pages of 131-134, a near very good copy lacking both the unprinted tissue dustwrapper and slipcase. Copy 412 of 900 numbered copies Signed by the author. An attractive volume by Kent about his Arctic sojourn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell.. N BY E.. Random House: NY, 1930.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Rockwell Kent, 11.25 x 8.25, silver decorated blue cloth, 245 pp, covers rubbed, spotted and stained, spine sunned, hinges loose, contents nice and clean, in worn, spine-darkened slipcase. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 900 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. N BY E [Signed]. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Qaurto, 245 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's decorated light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Housed in publisher's heavily worn slip case with a faded label bearing limitation number. Sunning to spine. Staining to rear board. Dye to top edge of textblock. Light penciling to endpapers. Age toning throughout textblock. Features Kent's illustrations scattered throughout along with 8 full page inserted prints made from Kent's original woodcuts. Signed flat by Kent on limitation page in rear. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1378367. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrations by the author. 4to, light blue cloth decoratively stamped in silver (light stain at the top of the spine). New York: Random House, 1930. Limited First Edition. One of 900 copiers, signed by Kent.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. N BY E - SIGNED. Random House, 1930.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited, #268/900 is signed on rear limitation page by the author/illustrator Rockwell Kent. Light blue, silver embossed pictorial boards clean and bright. Corners sharp, binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Slipcase in Good condition, separating at upper spine, otherwise intact.; 245 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. N BY E.. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 900 copies SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT. 245p. Quarto. Illustrated by Kent with the drawings, headings, initials, and page numbers printed in gray. Blue cloth with overall spine and cover designs in silver. Owner's name in ink, else fine in VG slipcase Limited to 900 copies SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. N BY E. Random House, 1930.
Price: US$377.00 + shipping
Description: N BY E, Random House, 1930, first edition,some slight (foxing?) to covers, small smudge mark at the fore edge of the title page and copyright page, else a near fine copy in near vg slipcase with some fading to the spine and some modest splitting. Illustrated with over 200 Rockwell Kent drawings. 1/900 copies SIGNED by the author/artist.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 900 copies signed by the author, this being copy 321; 4to, pp. 245, [3]; illustrated throughout, with woodcuts by Kent, each printed in gray, a number full-page; spine ends a bit darkened, else fine in original blue buckram stamped in silver on spine and upper cover, in publisher's slipcase worn and split. The story of Kent's challenging expedition to Greenland.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. N by E. Random House,, New York:, 1930.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in decorated light blue cloth covered boards with a silver colored stamping of a compass rose on the front board and text and decorations stamped on the spine. This binding is absolutely unblemished! In its original plain blue dust jacket in very good condition with tanning to the spine area and a few closed tears all of which have been repaired with archival tape on the verso side of the jacket. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within the original, very good+ dark blue, paper covered slip case which shows minor wear at its opening and one chip from the paper covering of 3/4" by 1/2". As noted on the rear page of text this copy has been numbered 572 out of only 900 copies printed. It is also signed on that page by the author. With extensive wood block illustrations by the author. The paper employed in the text is a special watermarked paper by Pynson Printers and completed in the month of November, 1930. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
KENT, ROCKWELL. N by E. New York Random House 1930, 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of an edition limited to 900 numbered copies signed by the author, Rockwell Kent. This copy is signed again as a presentation copy from Rockwell Kent, affectionately inscribed: ÒTo my friend, pilot Fred Black from his apprentice, Rockwell Kent, 1930.Ó Evidence of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown. Laid in is a 8Ó x 7Ó black & white photograph taken out of doors of Rockwell Kent, Fred Black, and another unidentified gentleman posed in front of a Stout Air Lines airplane, all of whom are wearing suits with Mr. Kent, alone, wearing a hat looking straight into the camera smiling, with his hands in his pockets. Illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Evidence of a removed bookplate on front pastedown, else very good plus with a small light pink discoloration to the lower left corner of the front cover with very light wear without dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
[Kittredge, William]; Kent, Rockwell. N by E.. Random House, New York, 1930.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, signed limited issue. A stunning presentation copy, inscribed by Rockwell Kent to William Kittredge, the director of design and typography at The Lakeside Press. Kittredge commissioned Kent to design and illustrate the iconic three-volume aluminum slip-cased 1930 Lakeside Press edition of Moby Dick, which was hailed as a triumph of Machine Age book design. Kittredge's bookplate (rather well designed, of course) on front paste down, and his business card laid in, chipped at one corner. First edition. Number 560 of a limited 900 copies signed by Kent at rear. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with elaborate silver stamping to front cover and spine, in blue paper covered slip case with matching limitation number on title label on spine. Near Fine with light fading to spine and light general wear to slipcase.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.