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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on both pastedowns and end pages. Toned spine. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Rubbing along panel edges. Faint bump on top text block edge. ; Personalized by Rockwell Kent on FEP. ; Signed by Author .

NY: Harcourt Brace, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition in first state dustjacket. Ownership copy of attorney Arthur Leonard Ross (d. 1975) who was a friend of Emma Goldman and represented the literary estates of Fred Harris and the like. With Ross' printed bookplate drawn by German artist Otto Ubbelohde and engraved by Botho Schmidt. SIGNED BY KENT in the inset at bottom of bookplate. Unclipped dustjacket ($3.75) toned, more darkly at spine and edges. Blue cloth with silver pressed spine near fine, with internals quite nice. A solid copy with interesting provenance.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/near fine. Signed first edition of Salamina by Rockwell Kent, in first state dust jacket.. Octavo, xix, 336pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine with decorative illustration. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Rubbing to cloth on both covers, limited to top corner. Clean text, light toning to endpapers. Complete with frontispiece and 22 full-page illustrations by Rockwell Kent. In publisher's near fine dust jacket, $3.75 on front flap, bright illustrations, short closed tear to rear panel near spine, an exceptional example. Signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free endpaper.

[New York]:: Vernon Kilns,, [1939-1942]. Very fine. Additional postage applicable.. Circular platter 16-3/4 inches.. Cream-colored earthenware platter printed with a transfer design by Rockwell Kent, then hand-painted. The line was soon discontinued due to the expense of manufacture. This large platter is scarce.

Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935. First edition, first printing. Faint soiling and rubbing, overall near fine in good only dust jacket. Dust jacket is toned with shallow chipping to extremities and full or partial separation to all four folds, though presents well in mylar.. Woodcuts and lithographs by Rockwell Kent.. Signed by the author on the ffep.

336 pp. Printed by Lakeside Press. Some age yellowing on the end papers and dust wrapper, otherwise the contents are near fine. Dust wrapper is clipped and shows some rubbing at the heel of the spine (1/4"). Over 80 illustrations by the author.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good blue cloth hardcover. 

Good. SIGNED 1st Edition. 1935 Harcourt, Brace and Company Hardcover, no dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KENT on ffep: Inscribed for..... Rockwell Kent / June 1936; Minor shelfwear to boards, pages slightly toned (heavier at gutters) otherwise good overall condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Toning on both inner hinges. Light shelf wear on front/rear panels. .

New York: Harcourt, 1935. hardcover. good. Kent, Rockwell. Illustrated by author. 8vo, blue cloth, decorative spine, corners and spine rubbed; binding lightly stained, end-leaves browned. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Charming presentation by the author/artist on the fly leaf. "To...attorney for the prosecution (another name of course, for lecturer on literature) this full confession of the defendant is submitted with a plea for mercy."<br/> <br/>

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935., 1935. 8vo. pp. xix, 336. 23 plates (incl. frontis. & double-page map) & 62 chapter headings with initials. cloth (upper corners bumped, pastedowns browned). dw. (upper spine chipped). First Trade Edition of Kent's account of his years in Greenland. "Salamina, published in October of 1935, was widely praised and reviewed. The London Times pointed out that it was "the first book about Greenland and the Greenlanders to be written by an artist.the men, the women and children who crowd into the pages of this rich book are human beings first and Greenlanders afterwards." (Johnson, Rockwell Kent An Anthology Of His Work, p. 59). F. Hardcover.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. Illustrated by the author. 337 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine, in lightly chipped, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated by the author. 337 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. G/G. 1935. First Edition. Cloth(Hardcover). 8vo., 336 pp., Dj rubbed, toned, edges frayed, page toning .

1935, Harcourt, Brace, NY; Illus by author. No dj. Blue boards VG with NF text. A SIGNED (Rockwell Kent), personal letter in envelope is adhered to the back inside cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1935. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. SMALL STAIN ON FRONT BOARDS; OTHERWISE, FINE IN NEAR FINE DJ WITH AGE DISCOLORATION, RUBBING & SMALL CHIPS.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First Edition. 336pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with title and decorative silver stamping to backstrip. Large chip to jacket's front panel at the upper left. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Good/Near fine. Signed by the author and artist, Rockwell Kent, at the head of the front free endsheet. "Salamina is Rockwell Kent's Greenland book, long awaited. It is an adventerous autobiography, a true chronicle of many curious and romantic happenings, and a narrative which, in style and in richly varied content, reflects perfectly the remote and beautiful world of north Greenland with all its Arctic wonders, its friendly souls, its peaceful harbors, its soaring mountains." Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was one of the leading illustrators and artists in America. He was a printmaker, illustrator, painter, lobsterman, ship's carpenter, and dairy farmer. Throughout his life, he was a left-wing activist and was blacklisted by Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935 First edition. Romantic story about Kent's adventures in the peaceful, incredible and little known country of north Greenland. Over 80 Rockwell Kent illustrations with 23 that are full-page sepia tone. Blue cloth stamped in silver on spine. 8vo. 337 pages. Small owner's name on flyleaf - Ethel Erickson! A little wear at top of spine and some condition or deterioration of the sizing of small size at extreme top and bottom edges of cover. Dust jacket is worn with some tears and some small pieces missing however front panel including the excellent illustration is in good shape. Good/Fair .

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition First printing With more than 80 plates and vignettes by the author. A near fine cope in a near fine clipped jacket, (spine browned as always, slight soiling, somewhat frayed. 1/16" loss to top and bottom of jacket spine. Jacket is clipped. An excellent copy of Kent's autobiographical account of Greenland. The 22 full page illustrations are wonderful. Salamina is Rockwell Kent's adventurous autobiography, a true chronicle of many curious and romantic happenings, and a narrative which, in style and in richly varied content, reflects perfectly the remote and beautiful world of North Greenland with all its Arctic wonders, its friendly souls, its peaceful harbors, and its souring mountains.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935. Hardcover; 8vo; 336 pages. First edition. Blue cloth with silver titles and illustration on spine. Cloth spotted. Rubbed edges. Prev. owner's name on fep corner. Yellowing edges but bright and clean interior, many illustrations, some in brown tones. In a illustrated paper jacket, yellowed and faded. Rubbed and bumped edges. NPC. In a mylar jacket. VG-/G. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/fair. 336pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with decorative stamping and lettering in silver on the backstrip. Publisher's brown top stain. The spine ends and edges of the covers are moderately bumped and rubbed, the front hinge is a little weak, and the pages are tanned. In a worn dust jacket. The front inside flap is completely detached, and there is a loss from the paper at the head of the spine, measuring 2 1/2" wide by 3/4" deep. Rockwell Kent's Greenland Book. With over eighty illustrations by the author. Fridolf Johnson writes in Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Work, "Salimina, published in 1935, was widely praised and reviewed. The London Times pointed out that it was 'the first book about Greenland and the Greenlanders to be written by an artist... the men, women and children who crowd into the pages of this book are human beings first and Greenlanders afterwards.'