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Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures
by KENT, Rockwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. Hardcover. Bibliography and list of prints by Carl Zigrosser. Small 4to. Blue pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 64pp, (87pp). Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and bit of rubbing, with jacket spine faintly sunned. A tight and quite nice first edition of this partial catalogue raisonne of lithographs, woodcuts, drawings and other media by the popular artist, illustrator, painter and writer (1882-1971). Rarely seen in the nifty jacket. Laid in loose are six small (3" X 3") but powerful Kent woodblock prints removed from outer wrappers of 1928-29 issues of "Scribner's" magazine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39679
- Title
- Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures
- Author
- KENT, Rockwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Art;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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