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Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. [9], 709, [1] pp. Signed by author at title page. Text clean and unmarked except for previous owner's identification opposite title page. Pages slightly toned. Maps at pastedowns. Green cloth boards with stamped vignette at front, black compartment at spine, spine illustrated and lettered in gilt. boards slightly scuffed and soiled, corners bumped, spine top and tail rubbed. Joints and hinges good, binding firm.
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Later printing in year of publication. Clean, neat signature (only) to title page. No DJ. Slight slant to block, wear to corners with light exposure. Light fraying to crown, light soiling to boards. Still presentable copy despite flaws. TM
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Jacket soiled, chipped, missing pieces at head of spine. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage [Signed]. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Green cloth over boards and gilt lettering to spine. Yellow, illustrated DJ with black lettering. Title and copyright pages dated 1937. 709 pages. Good condition. Covers are clean and square. Binding is stiff. Pages toned but clean. DJ has some chipping and a couple of closed tears, but is protected in mylar cover. SIGNED by author with inscription on title page.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1937.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth with gilt lettering in black text box on spine. Color is uniform with only puckering at the top and bottom spine. Illustration of sword and rifle on the spine as well. This book is square and tight book with mapped end papers showing portions of Maine and Canada. Small stain on the lower left front board. Some foxing on inside of front cover, particularly along the glue lines. "First Edition after the printing of two-volume edition of one thousand fifty copies". Signed by the author on the title page. The fore edge is deckled and the pages are toned. Advertisement page at back
Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday Doran, 1937.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Trade Edition. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. A Very good copy, with some shelfwear, and light soiling to the cloth (usual tanning to the inner hinges); front inner hinge tender at signed leaf, dust jacket has some shallow edgewear, and small chipping in places.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Autographed, inscribed by the Author. light brown cloth binding. lightly rubbed cover edges.
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of the trade edition (preceded by a limited edition). Signed by author Kenneth Roberts at the title page. Green cloth with gilt titles at spine in black title window, gilt spine decoration; blind-stamped decoration to front panel. Cloth rubbed, edgeworn, with a few light stains, light fading to spine. Binding sound. Dust jacket good in Mylar; scuffed, toned, and edgeworn, with chipping to spine ends. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage [Signed]. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1937.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. First Trade Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, map endpapers; [8],709pp. Numerous long closed tears to jacket margins with old tape repair to verso, spine panel a bit toned, corners nudged, contemporary ex libris to half title page, else a Very Good or better copy in Good only jacket. Signed by the author on title page.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: light brown cloth binding. *Kenneth Roberts bookplate, autographed on bookplate by Kenneth Roberts. lightly faded cover and spine edges
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, 1937.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, after the limited edition. SIGNED on the title page, "With all the good wishes of Kenneth Roberts x." The movie starring Spencer Tracey was based on this adventure novel. Forest green cloth cover blind-stamped on front, with gilt lettering on black label on the spine. The map endpapers are slightly glue shadowed at the hinges, there is slight play to the spine, front corners are a little bumped and cover a little aged but still a very good copy, lacking original dust jacket but with facsimile provided.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage. Doubleday Doran, 1937.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Doubleday Doran, 1937. 1st Ed. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, green cloth binding, DJ is edgeworn with small tears, Inscribed by the author on the title page, map endpapers, an historical novel, 1st trade edition after the limited edition, 709 pages" .
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage. Doubleday Doran,, Garden City:, 1937.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing Near fine in decorated dark green cloth covered boards with map end papers with the hinge areas of the end papers showing very faint foxing due to a reaction with the glue employed in binding as is often found with this printing. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with very minor rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area. Signed "With all the good wishes of | Kenneth Roberts" by the author on the title page. 709 pages of text. This was one of Robert's most popular books dealing with Major Robert Rogers, of Roger's Rangers and the French and Indian War. Very uncommon in such nice condition and signed without a personal inscription.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1937.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Kenneth Roberts on the title page. Historical novel concerning the life and exploits of Major Robert Rogers (1731-95), a daring colonial frontiersman who raised and commanded an irregular fighting force called Roger's Rangers that battled the French and their allied Indian tribes during the French and Indian War from 1855 to 1760. Unfortunately, the intemperate Rogers did not enjoy the same success in his subsequent life that he did as a guerilla soldier, and his later years were plagued by alcoholism, poverty, and adverse legal judgments. The second volume is an appendix, containing various official records and published accounts concerning Rogers, including the "lost" transcript of his Court Martial in 1768 with additional commentary by Roberts. This novel later served as the basis for the 1940 King Vidor film starring Spencer Tracy. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with black, gilt, and blind stamping. A near fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some very mild wear.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG, no DJs. #455 of a Special Limited Edition (signed by the author) of 1050. Both volumes in comparble, excellent overall condition. Moderate sun tanning on spines, light general wear to boards and edges, else excellent example. Bindings solid and straight, interiors clean and unmarked.
Seller: Nick of All Trades, Penn Valley, CA, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. , 1937.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Original gilt- and blind-pictorial cloth, map endpapers, non-priceclipped dust jacket. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Faint sunning to very top of spine, light dampstaining to endpapers, minor wear to ends of d/j spine panel, else very good or better.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Two volume set in original slipcase, numbered 716 of 1050 copies, signed by the author on a limitation page. Maroon hardcover cloth bindings with moderate sunning and minor scuffing to the spines. Lacking the dustjackets. Original slipcase with printed label is heavily shelfworn and has highly unattractive tape repairs. The endpapers of the first volume are map illustrated. Top edge git. Vol. I: [viii], 709 pages. Vol. II: [viii], 199 pages, including an index, illustrated with a frontisportrait of Major Robert Rogers, with numerous pages uncut and unopened. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: NORTHWEST PASSAGE, Doubleday Doran, 1937, first edition, some tanning to the inner gutters between the end-papers and paste-downs (no doubt due to the chemical reaction between glue and paper), else fine in bright vg+/near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Price: US$342.20 + shipping
Description: NORTHWEST PASSAGE, Doubleday Doran, 1937, first edition, fine in bright near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page. The source book for the 1940 film of the same name.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Price: US$342.20 + shipping
Description: NORTHWEST PASSAGE, Doubleday Doran, 1937, first edition, fine in bright near fine pictorial dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Volume Set. Special Limited, Numbered and Signed set. Limited to 1050 copies, this set is number 135. Red cloth exterior w/title on spine in gold. Top edges gilt. Interior on both volumes very good - no flaws. DJ (Creme color w/red frame rules) on Vol. 1 is complete but tape repaired on spine front top edge and rear outside top edge. Spine is very lightly sun darkened. Vol. 2 DJ only has the lightly sundarkened spine. No slipcase. The books are very good plus condition, no flaws - the dust jackets are good but flawed by the tape repair and minor sunning.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1937.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Copy No. 311 of a Special Edition of 1050, numbered and signed by the author. 2 vols. 8vo. After a bidding war for the movie rights, MGM adapted the first half of Roberts' novel into the movie of the same name, starring Spencer Tracy. Roberts disliked the movie so intensely that he vowed never to sell another of his works to Hollywood. Original red cloth, t.e.g. Fine. Copy of Secretary of Treasury C. Douglas Dillon with his signature on ffep First edition. Copy No. 311 of a Special Edition of 1050, numbered and signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. , 1937.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. 2 vols. Original cloth, t.e.g. Publisher's slipcase. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. First edition. Limited to 1,050 copies. Signed by the author. Slipcase worn, else a near fine set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage (Limited Edition). Doubleday Doran & Co.,, New York:, 1937.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Both volumes are in fine condition in reddish cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt top edges to the text blocks. Both are small quartos of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with Yale University Library book plates on the front paste downs. (Each book plate is noted that this title is a duplicate of what was in the library at that time and neither volume bears any other library markings.) Both volumes are in their original decorated, paper, unclipped dust jackets which are in very good+ condition with a 1/2 inch deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area of volume II and volume I has 1/2 inch "V" shaped chip at the base of the spine area. Both jackets are tanned on their spine areas. Volume I contains the first trade edition version of Kenneth Robert's Northwest Passage which remained on the best seller list for many months. It is the account of the life of Major Robert Rogers (founder of Roger's Rangers) as seen through the eyes of a fictional protagonist. Volume II contains "the unique historical material on which the essentials of the novel were based" to include a transcript of the courts martial trial of Major Rogers which was held in Montreal in 1768. Volume one is signed by the author on a specially tipped in page and numbered 228 out of only 1,050 copies printed. Both volumes are contained in a good original, paper covered slip case which is rubbed in many areas and the top panel is creased and shows closed tears to the joints and has a one inch coffee (?) stain to one of the paper labels. An very handsome and collectible set and quite uncommon in original dust jackets.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1937.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Slight tanning to front free endpaper. l
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage.. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1937.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Kenneth Roberts' historical novel which follows the exploits of Robert Rogers, the leader of a colonial force fighting with the British during the French and Indian War. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page, "With all the good wishes of Kenneth Roberts." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration from a pastel by Winold Reiss, based on an original engraving of Major Rogers. Bookplate. Housed in the original slipcase which is in very good condition and a custom cloth clamshell box. Told through the eyes of primary character Langdon Towne, Roberts' Northwest Passage follow the exploits and character of Robert Rogers, the leader of Rogers' Rangers, who were a colonial force fighting with the British during the French and Indian War. The book later served as the basis for a 1940 movie starring Spencer Tracy and a 1958-59 TV show on NBC starring Buddy Ebsen.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937. Signed by Author on Limited Edition page. This Special Two-Volume Edition of Northwest Passage is 'Limited to One Thousand and Fifty Copies Numbered and Signed by the Author of Which One Thousand Are for Sale'. This is Number 773. 2 volumes complete. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Light general wear. No slipcase. 709 + 199 pages. RBR13
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage.. NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937., 1937.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. 1-1050 copies numbered and signed by the author, this being number 449. Two volumes. 8vos. 709 pp.; frontispiece. 199 pp. Volume 1 has map endpapers. Original red cloth binding. Top edges gilt. Publisher's red cardboard slipcase with printed/illustrated labels front and rear. Owner's bookplates front of etc volume and a small plate removal residue front free endpaper Volume 2, else the books are tight fine. There is a light line stain top third of the backstop of Volume 1 else the DJs are crisp, near fine. The slipcase has rubbing and one of the top seams is split, good plus to very good minus.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1937, 1937.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition after the printing of a limited two-volume edition of one thousand and fifty copies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage. Doubleday,Doran & Company, 1937.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket Without Wear. First Edition $2.75 On Flap. Signed by the Author On The Title-Page. Gorgeous Copy Of this Classic
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday, Doran, NY, 1937.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1000 numbered copies (#980) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Two volumes, fine in VG Dust Jackets a bit browned on the spines in the publisher's good pictorial slipcase with wear along edges and split along one edge. Volume 2, the appendix, contains ancillary material, none of which was available in the regular trade edition. Roberts's most celebrated historical novel of the American Colonial period, the basis for a memorable film by MGM in 1940
Seller: Mystery Cove Book Shop, Hulls Cove, ME, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. , 1937.
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: ROBERTS, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Two vols. Orig. cloth, d/js. N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. First edition. Limited to 1,050 sets signed by the author. A fine set, still in the publisher's box.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage. Doubleday,Doran & Company, 1937.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 Volumes In Fine Jackets First Editions In Original Slipcase Limited Edition 1000 for Sale Signed by The Author.#328. Beautiful Fresh Set.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The two volume special edition, preceeding the first trade edition, signed and numbered, this copy 890 of 1050. This copy appears unread, as some of the pages are uncut. Pristine inside and out, bright gilt titles on the spines and no edgewear. No prior owner marks. The dust jackets are near fine, a bit darkened on the spines. The original protective box is very good plus, with some edge wear but the paper labels on the sides undamaged. Volume two has historical documents not found in the trade edition, including commentary of Major Rogeers' jouranl, and a record of his Court Martial. Still a fine historical novel.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Price: US$887.20 + shipping
Description: NORTHWEST PASSAGE, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, first edition, 2 volumes, fine with just about vg dust-wrappers a bit tanned and soiled at the dust-wrapper spines in publishers vg slip-case with some wear and rubbing. 1/1000 copies offered for sale SIGNED by the author. Volume 2, the appendix, contains the court martial of Major Robert Rogers, the court martial of Lt. Samuel Stephens and other new material, none of which was available in the regular trade edition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
ROBERTS, KENNETH. Northwest Passage. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1937.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volume limited edition housed in the original illustrated slip-case. Maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, map endpapers, top edges gilt. White dust jackets are complete though the lettering on the spines is faded by half and there is moderate wrinkling to volume I, very minor wrinkling to volume II. From a limited edtion of 1000 copies this one being number 297. Basis for the classic and successful 1940 King Vidor film starring Spencer Tracy. Second volume is an appendix containing Historical background information of Major Robert Rogers and the Court Martial of Lt. Samuel Stephens. A very clean and solid set and scarce in the original jackets and slip-case. Signed by Kenneth Roberts on the limitation page. Fine / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1937.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION authentically SIGNED by Kenneth Roberts on the limitation page. An outstanding copy with the publisher's slipcase and dustjacket that has minor wear. This limited edition of 1050 copies printed is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the pages are exceptionally clean. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Kenneth Roberts First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.