The Lakeside Press Announces Illustrated Editions of American Books
by (Kent, Rockwell) The Lakeside Press
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- Hardcover
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Redding, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Lakeside Press. Chicago: 1930. Very fine. Rockwell Kent proofs. Folio., Gray wraps with exposed spine threads, tipped-in reproductions of title pages or sample pages for each volume. This prospectus includes Melville's "Moby Dick", a 3-volume edition with 275 illustrations by Kent. Other titles included Poe, "Tales", Dana, "Two Years Before the Mast", and Thoreau, "Walden". Volume is laid into morocco and cloth book-sty le case included with trial proofs of several title pages and ilustrations by Kent. Also included are a group of 4 ALsS from Frances Kent, wife of Rockwell 3 TLsS from Rockwell Kent containing excellent content regarding "Moby Dick". This is a magnificen t archive from one of the greatest illusrators of all time..
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- Bookseller
- Quaker Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000037
- Title
- The Lakeside Press Announces Illustrated Editions of American Books
- Author
- (Kent, Rockwell) The Lakeside Press
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lakeside Press. Chicago: 1930.
- Keywords
- ROCKWELL KENT LAKESIDE PRESS ILLUSTRATED/FINE PRESS.
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