05-31-201405-31-2014
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2730BBoston
May 31, 2014 11:00 AMCalender
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Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Thirteen Volumes, Five Signed.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2730BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 31, 2014 11:00AM

Description:

Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Thirteen Volumes, Five Signed.
Titles include the following signed or inscribed copies: Candide, New York: Literary Guild, 1929, no jacket, cover sunned; Rockwellkentiana, New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1933, in a slightly worn jacket; This is My Own, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940], in a torn jacket; Salamina, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1935, dampstaining to insides of boards, jacket, which is torn and discolored; and Profile of Rockwell Kent in Twenty-two Letters, Brownlee Miscellany No. 1, 1947, with a seven-line inscription to Charles Wayland Lightbody and his wife Georgia;
[and] eight other unsigned Kent titles. (13)
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Rockwell, Brace and Co., Literary Guild, Charles Wayland Lightbody