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Price: US$765.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Xv, 184 Pp. #32 Of A Limited Edition Of 110 Copies Of Which 100 Were For Sale. Faux Vellum Spine, Blue Boards, Spine An Cover Labels Printed In Blue, Blue And White Illustrated Endpapers (The Trade Edition Had Map Endpapers.) First Edition, Signed By Kent On Limitation Page And Again In The Two Color Woodcut Bound Before The Half Title, And With The Extra Illustration, Not Present In The Trade Edition, Placed After The Introduction. Light Wear Showing With Tiny Frays At Corners. Hinges Tight. Faint Damp Stain In Small Area At Top Of Spine Panel Affecting Upper 2/3 Of The Spine Label.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce limited "Author's Autograph Edition" of 110 numbered and signed copies with an original signed woodcut, this being #6 and a presentation copy from Kent to his "dear friend" and publisher, George Putnam, expressing his "gratitude - too often not expressed - that I must forever feel for him - and do" and signed again, "Affectionately, / Rockwell"; George Palmer Putnam, an author & explorer, was later the discoverer of an at-the-time unknown aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, whom he sponsored on her first transatlantic flight & later married; he was also, of course, the then-current head of the longtime Putnam publishing family; printed at the Knickerbocker Press on heavy-stock paper, rough-cut to the bottom and foredges, there is a full-page woodcut unique to this edition - in addition to the signed one - appearing after the Introduction, and the illustrated endpapers are not reproduced in subsequent editions (a map of Tierra del Fuego appears instead); a Very Good copy in faux-vellum-backed blue papered boards with panel & spine title labels, minor shelf & edge wear to the boards with a little quiet soiling (primarily along spine) and a small half-inch circular stain mid-spine, light bump to spine top/rear panel, 2 tiny pinholes along front gutter, very slight gap between signatures at pages 64-5, else hinges & binding tight, pages unmarked & an overall excellent example of this beautifully produced and printed Rockwell Kent classic, with truly one-of-a-kind associations; 4to; xvi + 184pp illus + signed bound-in woodcut.
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Kent, Rockwell. Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan. G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1924.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beautiful, gift quality copy; Rockwell Kent's signature and inscription dated 1928 on second ffep; llustrated throughout; Mapped end papers, top edge gilt; Aged-toned, else textblock is very clean and very tight; The illustrated cloth binding is bumped at head and foot of spine and board corners, lightly edge worn; Unclipped dust jacket, creased and crunched at the corners, with overall light edge wear at the spine extremities and folds; 184pp. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.