Lot 190: Twenty-Three Books Illustrated by Rockwell Kent

Twenty-Three Books Illustrated by Rockwell Kent: Rockwell Kent, "Rockwellkentiana" (Harcourt Brace, 1933); Rockwell Kent, "Salamina" (Faber & Faber, 1936), first U.K. edition; Rockwell Kent, "Salamina" (Harcourt, Brace, 1935), first edition; Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass" (Heritage, 1950); Gordon C. Aymar, "A Treasury of Sea Stories" (A.S. Barnes); "The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio" (Garden City, 1949); Rockwell Kent, "This Is My Own" (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940), with dust jacket; Rockwell Kent, "A Northern Christmas" (Wesleyan, 1998); P.W. Litchfield, "Autumn Leaves: Reflections of an Industrial Lieutenant" (Corday & Gross Co., 1945); Rockwell Kent, "N by E" (Cassell, 1930), with dust jacket; Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" (Random House, 1930); George S. Chappell, "A Basket of Poses" (Albert & Charles Boni, 1924); Voltaire, "Candide" (Halcyon House, 1937); Esther Shepherd, "Paul Bunyon" (Harcourt, Brace, 1944 reprint); Esther Shepherd, "Paul Bunyon" (Harcourt, Brace, 1924), first printing; Ralph Allen, "The Saga of Gisli" (Harcourt, Brace, 1936), first edition; Louis Untermeyer, "The Book of Noble Thoughts" (American Artists Group, 1946); Chaucer, "Canterbury Tales" (Covici Friede), with dust jacket; Chaucer, "Canterbury Tales" (Garden City, 1934), with dust jacket; Rockwell Kent, "Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan" (Halcyon House, 1924), fourth printing; "Complete Works of Shakespeare" (Garden City, 1936), with dust jacket; Louis Untermeyer, "Americana Esoterica" (Macy-Masius, 1917), No. 1368 of 3,000 copies; Rockwell Kent, "Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920).

Price Realized: $600

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