N BY E
by Kent, Louis Andrews (alias Mrs. Appleyard)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: New York Literary Guild, 1930. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. Rockwell Kent (Wood Block prints). Text/Bright & Near New. Vintage 1930, First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated beige linen boards embossed in green/NF w/fading to spine. DJ/None. PO name neatly pencilled to front cover verso. Printed 1930 by Lakeside Press, Chicago, supervised by William A. Kittredge. A true adventure and a great among sailing stories. A voyage from New York Harbor to Greenland in a small boat, and a shipwreck once there, of artist & writer Rockwell Kent (1882 - 1971). Illustrated with marvelous wood block prints which, Kent cautions "... are less illustrative of the text than supplementary to it." An appendix of 15 Eskimo poems/songs from pre-European days. Fine copy less dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006805
- Title
- N BY E
- Author
- Kent, Louis Andrews (alias Mrs. Appleyard)
- Illustrator
- Rockwell Kent (Wood Block prints)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/Stitched
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York Literary Guild
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Memoir, Adventure, Sailing, New York, Greenland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Autobiography; Memoir;
Terms of Sale
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