THIS IS MY OWN. With Drawings by the Author
by Kent, Rockwell
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Spine is evenly tanned, with few spots of light foxing on front cover (binding and pictorial front cover is otherwise bright), e
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. First edition, second(?) printing [no edition statement on copyright page]; presumed second printing, with no printing statement on copyright page [page 22 states: "... Deer's Head Inn..." (first printing states "... Davis Head Inn...") and with different vignette illustration present on pages 145 and 159 (first printing has same vignette illustration on pages 145 and 159)]. Illus. by author. 393pp. Thick 8vo. Spine is evenly tanned, with few spots of light foxing on front cover (binding and pictorial front cover is otherwise bright), else a near fine copy (endpapers are slightly tanned, text and illustrations are fresh and clean). First edition, second(?) printing [no edition statement on copyright page]; presumed second printing, with no printing statement on copyright page [page 22 states: "... Deer's Head Inn..." (first printing states "... Davis Head Inn...") and with different vignette illustration present on pages 145 and 159 (first printing has same vignette illustration on pages 145 and 159)]. Illus. by author. 393pp. Thick 8vo. SIGNED. Signed by Rockwell Kent on the front flyleaf.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 329791
- Title
- THIS IS MY OWN. With Drawings by the Author
- Author
- Kent, Rockwell
- Format/Binding
- Illus. by author. 393pp. Thick 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine is evenly tanned, with few spots of light foxing on front cover (binding and pictorial front cover is otherwise bright), e
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, second(?) printing [no edition statement on copyr
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- American
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The Old Mill Bookshop
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey
About The Old Mill Bookshop
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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