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Kent, Rockwell. Salamina. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1935.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. xix and 336 pp. Illustrated by the author. Printed at the Lakeside Press. Blue cloth binding with titling and design in silver on spine. Signed by Kent on the front free end-paper. Wear to the bottom edge of spine, dusting to end-papers. Stain on fore-edge and bottom edge.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. Salamina. Harcourt, New York, 1935.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by author. 8vo, blue cloth, decorative spine, rubbed & lightly stained, end-leaves browned, d.w. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First Edition. Autographed by Kent on the flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. Salamina. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935.
Price: US$139.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. 336pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with title and decorative silver stamping to backstrip. Large chip to jacket's front panel at the upper left. Signed by the author and artist, Rockwell Kent, at the head of the front free endsheet. DJ has tape repair on the entire top edge of the front cover and a small chip on the corner. The pages have signes of ageing. "Salamina is Rockwell Kent's Greenland book, long awaited. It is an adventerous autobiography, a true chronicle of many curious and romantic happenings, and a narrative which, in style and in richly varied content, reflects perfectly the remote and beautiful world of north Greenland with all its Arctic wonders, its friendly souls, its peaceful harbors, its soaring mountains." Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was one of the leading illustrators and artists in America. He was a printmaker, illustrator, painter, lobsterman, ship's carpenter, and dairy farmer. Throughout his life, he was a left-wing activist and was blacklisted by Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He was a member of the Socialist Party and a promoter of civil rights and civil liberties.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. Salamina. Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1935.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED BY KENT on ffep, A Fine Copy in a Very Good (but Chipped) DJ, glasine covered
Seller: Uncommon Books - The Gomez Collection, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Salamina. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1935.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 336pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with title and decorative silver stamping to backstrip. Large chip to jacket's front panel at the upper left. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Good/Near fine. Signed by the author and artist, Rockwell Kent, at the head of the front free endsheet. "Salamina is Rockwell Kent's Greenland book, long awaited. It is an adventerous autobiography, a true chronicle of many curious and romantic happenings, and a narrative which, in style and in richly varied content, reflects perfectly the remote and beautiful world of north Greenland with all its Arctic wonders, its friendly souls, its peaceful harbors, its soaring mountains." Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was one of the leading illustrators and artists in America. He was a printmaker, illustrator, painter, lobsterman, ship's carpenter, and dairy farmer. Throughout his life, he was a left-wing activist and was blacklisted by Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He was a member of the Socialist Party and a promoter of civil rights and civil liberties.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Salamina. Harcourt, Brace and Company, N.Y., 1935.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Rockwell Kent of the ffep. a very nice copy in a price clipped dust jacket with a bit of edge chipping and light scattered foxing. He sure did love Greenland!
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
KENT, Rockwell. Salamina. Harcourt, New York, 1935.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by author. 8vo, blue cloth, decorative spine, corners and spine rubbed; binding lightly stained, end-leaves browned. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First Edition. Charming presentation by the author/artist on the fly leaf. "To.attorney for the prosecution (another name of course, for lecturer on literature) this full confession of the defendant is submitted with a plea for mercy."
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "First Edition" stated; not price clipped -- original $3.75 price showing. (Inflation? What inflation?) Jacket shows minor chipping along top edge, and considerable edge wear along the front flap fold, though the main reason we downgrade to "good-plus" is because the jacket has age-toned considerably. Author has dated Sept. 10, 1936 and inscribed diagonally to the second blank "from an 'understanding soul,' 'Salamina' goes to Lena, for reasons only she, the book, can disclose!" The author has thus inscribed, but has not signed his name. First state jacket depicts Salamina bathing, not the substituted (second state) bird of prey. Kent's account of his year in a small village in North Greenland, with 22 full-page illustrations. 337 pp., reduced from $250.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Salamina. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by the author on the ffep. Faint soiling and rubbing, overall near fine in good only dust jacket. Dust jacket is toned with shallow chipping to extremities and full or partial separation to all four folds, though presents well in mylar.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Salamina; Illustrated by the author. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1935.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, xix, 336pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine with decorative illustration. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Rubbing to cloth on both covers, limited to top corner. Clean text, light toning to endpapers. Complete with frontispiece and 22 full-page illustrations by Rockwell Kent. In publisher's near fine dust jacket, $3.75 on front flap, bright illustrations, short closed tear to rear panel near spine, an exceptional example. Signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free endpaper.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sturdily bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped in silver on the spine. With a touch of fraying to the top and bottom of the spine ends. Clean and tight throughout with usual faint bleeding of the binder's glue residue on the front and rear paste-downs along the hinges. In a married good plus first edition dust jacket with the original price of $3.75 at the top of the inside front flap. Chipping and pieces missing from the top and bottom of the spine ends. Binder's glue residue transfer along the rear panel spine fold. This copy is signed "Rockwell Kent" in black ink, and he has drawn in blue ink a wonderful Rube Goldberg-style drawing with a bleeding heart pierced by an arrow dripping into a wineglass; then the wineglass is overturned and nourishes a flower. This swirling toast with hearts and flowers in Kent's delicate hand is inscribed, "To Mike! Detroit, March 19th 1938." Rockewll Kent's early paintings of Mount Monadnock and New Hampshire were first shown at theSociety of American Artistsin New York in 1904, whenDublin Pondwas purchased bySmith College. In 1905 Kent ventured to Monhegan Island, Maine, and found its rugged and primordial beauty a source of inspiration for the next five years. His first series of paintings of Monhegan were shown to wide critical acclaim in 1907 at Clausen Galleries in New York. These works form the foundation of his lasting reputation as an early American modernist, and can be seen in museums across the country, including theMetropolitan Museum of Art,Seattle Art Museum,New Britain Museum of American Art, and theFine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Among those critics lauding Kent was James Huneker of theSun, who praised Kent's athletic brushwork and daring color dissonances.[6](It was Huneker who deemed the paintings ofThe Eightas "decidedly reactionary".)[7]In 1910, Kent helped organize the Exhibition of Independent Artists, and in 1911 together with Arthur B. Davies he organized An Independent Exhibition of the Paintings and Drawings of Twelve Men, referred to as "The Twelve" and "Kent's Tent". Painters Marsden Hartley,John Marin, andMax Weber(but not John Sloan, Robert Henri, or George Bellows) participated in the 1911 exhibition. A transcendentalist and mysticin the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson, whose works he read, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness. After Monhegan, he lived for extended periods of time inWinona, Minnesota(1912 1913),Newfoundland(1914 15),Alaska(1918 19),Vermont(1919 1925),Tierra del Fuego(1922 23),Ireland(1926), andGreenland(1929; 1931 32; 1934 35). His series of land and seascapes from these often forbidding locales convey the Symbolist spirit evoking the mysteries and cosmic wonders of the natural world. "I don't want petty self-expression", Kent wrote, "I want the elemental, infinite thing; I want to paint the rhythm of eternity." (Wikipedia) First Edition (Stated First Edition on the copyright page with 1935.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent. SALAMINA SIGNED. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1935.
Price: US$2797.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on both pastedowns and end pages. Toned spine. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Rubbing along panel edges. Faint bump on top text block edge. ; Personalized by Rockwell Kent on FEP. ; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.