[Rarebooks] Rockwell Kent

[Dennis Melhouse]

1.      [Kent, Rockwell]. Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE CANTERBURY TALES, TOGETHER 
WITH A VERSION IN MODERN ENGLISH BY WILLIAM VAN WYCK. New York: 
Covici-Friede, 1930. Limited to 924 copies SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT. Two 
volumes. Folio. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Bound in cream cloth with 
titles in gilt.  Minor cover soil, all else fine.  (13689)  $750.00

2.      Kent, Rockwell.  FORTY DRAWINGS... TO ILLUSTRATE THE WORKS OF 
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. [Garden City]: [1936]. Limited to 1000 sets. . 
Portfolio of 40 prints, each matted, and with one SIGNED in pencil by Kent. 
Plate size 11 1/4" x 8 1/2", Mat size 18" x 15 1/4". Housed in ORIGINAL box 
with original cover label on upper cover showing only minimal wear. 
Fine.   (14243)   $2650.00

3.      Kent, Rockwell. [The Adventures of Casanova]  Set of 12 proofs 
Drawings by Kent as frontispieces of the 12-volume edition published in 
1925. [1925]. All approximately 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" plus margins (one with 
small margins) All fine but for one with crease at bottom edge into the 
image.  (13761)   $350.00

4.      Kent, Rockwell.  WILDERNESS, A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN 
ALASKA. Los Angeles: Wilderness Press, distributed by the Ward Ritchie 
Press, (1970). Limited to 1550 copies SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT, this edition 
with new material. . xxi, 204p. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Small 4to. 
Blue cloth with gilt spine titles and paper cover label, illustrated 
endpapers. Fine in slipcase.   (8291)     $165.00

5.      Robinson, Selma.  CITY CHILD. New York: The Colophon Ltd. , 1931. 
Limited to 300 copies signed by author and artist (with his thumb print), 
and with a litho not present in the trade edition. . 64p. Illustrated by 
Rockwell Kent. Blue cloth spine over patter paper boards, paper spine 
label. Slight darkening to spine label, else fine in 
slipcase.   (10644)     $350.00

6.      Vercel, Roger.  IN SIGHT OF EDEN. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 
(1934). First edition in English. . [viii], 254p. Illustrated by Rockwell 
Kent. Tan cloth with titles and designs on spine and upper cover in black 
and orange. Fine in d.j. with slightest nicks, and in supplied 
slipcase.   (10651)     $250.00

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